Because You Never Know
By
Jennifer Angelina Petro
When the welcoming angel
Will spirit you away into the folds
Of the other world,
Who exactly you are becoming,
Why you love sunsets and stars,
What compassion grows in you
For the secret sorrows that haunt
Another’s heart, like lost echoes
In a cavern of lakes and rivers,
Where your reverence leads
And how it gets there,
How your cells build one atop
The other while you walk
Without spilling you to the ground.
It’s best to just go about your days
Singing, breathing with your whole body,
And adventuring into the questions
Until the word never finally falls away, like
The paper and string of an unexpected gift
Opened by a child who finds inside
What they’ve always wanted.
Gorgeous and truthful. Thank you, Radiance. We do not know.
Thank you. <3