Invisible, yet Ready
By Radiance Angelina Petro
March 29th, 2023
When you come to the end
of the road, and the path behind
is no longer viable, and the way ahead
seems unlikely—since it is in fact, gone,
take that one more step, even if
it drops into nothing, which, in all
probability, it will.
That’s where grace lives.
That’s where dragons await
with wings ready to part.
So then, fall—
it’s not as if you have a choice
in the matter anyway now. Gravity still works
in the unknowable. But so does unreasonable
love. The kind that comes out of nowhere,
the kind that catches you when you fall,
the kind that suddenly lifts you
and sets you down onto an emerging road—
the kind of love where the remarkable
breathes fire and roars you back into your life,
the kind that walks beside you—invisible yet ready,
at a moment’s notice, to step in front and clear the way—
the way that curves toward a previously unseen horizon—
where a destination calls you forward, one that stays
one step ahead, while at the same time
embracing you as the sea embraces the shore–
one that is, ever was, ever shall be yours
and yours never once to walk alone.