Shift

It’s easy to get
stuck—

in how things have
been.

Sometimes the pain is most
familiar,

our low expectations
believable.

Easy now, beautiful
human.

Do you really know the
future?

Maybe you should put it in
reverse—

or even better,
shift to neutral.

Let it ride for at least
ninety seconds.

Nowhere you have to
go.

Be here,
be you awhile.

There can be great relief in
I don’t know.

Look up, and through the
rain—

maybe you missed the
rainbow.