Failure is all the rage
these days.
I have been practicing, and I understand
the rage.
Someone said that melancholy
is tragedy handled well.
breaking out of your comfort zone
Is the key to freedom from
the cottage of contentment.
too small for you but everything
you think you need,
within arms reach.
How do you know
what you need- Now
Meditate,
we are advised- Let it go
as if commitment was the culprit.
Break habits, make space and then
Kintsugi.
Same thing as working with what we have.
Is that the work
that pays
nothing but costs everything?
Expectations interfere,
and fear is expected.
For the winners-
overcome and overflowing; All
the times we cannot hold onto,
the memories we cannot release
and the future that refuses to arrive.
Setbacks and leg ups,
there was always more to gain by loss.
Painting by Nikolai Yaroshenko, 'Portrait of a woman' c. 1893 in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
