each morning we wake
content we have begun
in the middle somewhere
like Dante wrote once
so distant now to be
before time to our day
to day commutes and
colleagues comments
whispered beneath
the raging lions lurking
along the forest’s edges
entangled in the stories
we tell like roots driving
deeper into the cliff
as we begin our leap
gulping after air
(August 4, 2015)
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