3.7.14 It Gets Better

Surprises simply upend us
The unanticipated; the tragic
The death of one, close or far from our hearts
The news afar of for the better, or the worse
for the land, for the humans, for the creatures
and the earth
So many things , I'm afraid to say to you,
are normal

It gets better: that which is within
That which is of our own self
That which is of our growing awareness
It gets better: that which we begin to
slowly learn to accept with the
potent universal "Yes".
The Yes to a beautiful day and the
Yes to aging and its cumulative consequence and choices
The Yes to car accidents and the
Yes to suddenly lost jobs
The Yes to discovered illness; the Yes to a challenged child
The Yes to the seeming unfair
The Yes to harrowing fear
The Yes to making it through and the
divinity within us that fosters the
miraculous growth of a deeper capacity
to navigate ,with realism ,all of this life.

Better we take this in, whole willing heart
eyes wide; full sight
Better we are grown up seeped in the
real of beginnings and endings, the
nature of how they unwind
fast, or spuriously slow
so the illusion of surprise, of
shock that this could ever happen
is slowly, gently, realistically, a small
thing of your past
as the happening of these events and reality
grows its roots within our present