Changing Everything
By
Jennifer Angelina Petro
You know very well
When you push a mug off the table
It breaks.
You know very well
When you take steps
Towards your door
You get there.
You know very well
About cause and effect,
How when the butterfly
Opens and closes her wings
As she dapples around the field,
She makes waves somewhere
Far away. You may feel
Insignificant. You may feel
Inconsequential, but the truth is
Everything you do, every movement,
Gesture, and breath, shimmers
Out over and into the silver fabric
Of time and space. Everything
Eventually touches everything else,
No matter whether you sense it or not.
There is no need to sit back
And feel afraid or ashamed,
Or like you may as well be
A feather on the breath of God.
You are not the feather.
You are the breath. Speak
Your life, declare your spirit,
Move, like a giant, and that
Doesn’t mean stomping
And ravaging around—it means
Be big in your plans, be heard
As you become more and more yourself,
Even if that means being
Quiet as a mouse, making
Tiny, meticulous arrangements—
Sooner, or later, your presence will
Rattle the castle and waken the cat,
So, move as if your very existence
Touches everything and everyone
Around you and faraway, because
It does. And should you ever feel
Buffeted around, like the afore mentioned
Feather in the wind, then go—
Release yourself into that
Until you come to rest on the water
Beneath the trees, where your arrival
Radiates out, moving the eyes
Of fish and frog and the otter drifting
With the moon on its belly,
Changing everything just by being
You.
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