Poem

So here’s the thing

For twenty-seven years
I have been stockpiling
revelations, epiphanies, and jewels
for you. Whether they are
easy for you to find or whether
you have to work up a sweat
to get at them, they are here.
Of course, there are more elsewhere,
but what I have hoarded here
is enough to bring reaching,
noticing, and doing within your grasp.
It’s something alive that I am leaving you.
It’s not a tombstone, or a dare, or even an expectation.

It’s a promise.
Persevere.
Read widely.
Make time in your world for this world.
It is the world of before and now and next.
You can have it. You can know it.
It is here in reach.
Reach.

March 2020