LIFE CHOICES
Life Made a home In a handful of dust Set in resistant ground Would the dry land Withhold consent A host rejecting This foreign body? The teenage fiancée Between fear and trust Said, Let it be Knowing parched roots Were in need Of the Life she would carry Beyond borders So Life learned to walk In the valley where New beginnings so often Turn to old ends And received wisdom Gets it wrong, again Where Amnesiac cycles Reheat history In shiny new bowls And fresh taste So often dries stale On the tongue Life came to The crossroads where Beauty and horror meet Poured itself out Disrupting hard soil with renewal While the earth Quietly spun Life perseveres Calls as we pause Between fear and trust Exclusion and welcome Commands our dry bones To get up and walk And carry the life That enables green shoots To invade concrete yards
Mud at the wall 