Growth

I can’t see where I’m going to
if I keep on looking back
and counting losses one by one
though they profited not.

It’s just a list of this and that
that grew till my departure
from the empty and the barren
that froze a fulsome heart.

So the leaving from the past
just a thawing into grace
and an in and unto freedom
from the long ago outgrown.

But how grows a woman/man
from that which twisted humankind
into the warped and saddened
from the pure and gentle loving?

Simply perhaps the willingness
to be released and re-directed
brings events and happenings
into life and consciousness ~
and once aware don’t ere despair
because growth spurts always hurt
until, of course, they don’t!