What Came Before.
her life taps her on the shoulder
and she turns around
to see that it looks nothing like
what came before.
and she wonders what made the star
that was her continuing subsistence
explode to become
the remarkable days she savors now
what catalyst took the combining experiences
and made them into something so new
that it doesn’t even resemble
what came before.
when she looks into his eyes
she sees things she never thought
could be real
colors never imagined
appear in plenty
and landscapes change
from grey and flat and lonely
to lush and new and bright
and when she looks away
she sees a world that has a rightness
that never was in
what came before.
and her heart flies now
instead of sinking under weight
it rises with its corners filled
lightness pervades her being
these days
and she feels so much more
of the good
than she ever did in
what came before.
and when her life taps her on the shoulder
and she turns around
to see what it looks like
she smiles a smile that looks
nothing at all like
what came before.
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