The Moment the world
as you know it
Shifts
Slips onto a parallel path
oddly Arduous
yet so Enriched
teaches the intense
Fulfillment of Perseverance
at the heart of adversity
And if Chosen
Humility
in the face
of ever-changing
Constancy
Revealing
our infinitesimal place
in Life’s Design
The Challenge
Of Being
Here, Now
So close And so far
*
stepping onto the dojang floor
*
The Moment of Agency
*
I see you from my Distance
Watching those Steadily
Rise, as you have,
Observing them cultivate
Favor, all be it awkwardly,
mistaking indispensable
Sincerity for
Brawn unwittingly
short-lived
Yet you, Continue
Plodding
Clear as to our Condition
Transparent too, as to that
Cellular make up
One which doesn’t Linger
One which doesn’t wait
you Smile at the Hubris
of young muscle
(your giving heart
has witnessed
so many)
Will they persevere
Upon hitting the Wall
of Time?
Will they, as you do
learn to Harness
Inner Strength?
Summon Might
Learn Beauty,
Power,
All Present
in the Adversity
of an Ageing body?
Or will they Break
Retire, knees and hips buckling
As they decline to Bend
to the Inner Sanctum
of Breath and Bones?
Art Work by Yaron Rosner