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The Trapeze Artist

Laurel Trautwein

sometimes you have to lose everything

that you thought was real and forever

what you were told was important and true

and you have to be at the very end of your rope

holding on with only one hand

to finally hear what it is that makes

your very singular heart beat


and the sounds of others will fade out

as you take surprised breaths

in your shattered form

but you will slowly resurrect yourself

as the native wisdom of your soul

becomes louder in the void


for you are now a creator

and you have been to the edge

of the old existence

and found a net cast forth

from the deepest part of you

that you are just now meeting


that part was waiting for this moment

what others might call a fall

but you will later call your rise

and the beginning is just beginning

for when you realize it was you

that caught yourself

there is nothing left to fear

and nowhere to go but up







 
 

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