Things Change

Things change,
Then change again
That is the nature of things
Feelings grow more fluid and flow
Freely from belly to breast
From throat to eyes
Clarifying,
Purifying a moment in time
Long held
Long believed
Now released
Leaving in its wake
A new way
Of seeing,
Of saying,
Of being

Things change,
Then change again
That is the nature of things
We hold on
We hold tight
To the things we think will save us
Things we hope will prove us,
Things that make us other than
Who we were born to be

We are meant
To live and love
At every fork in the road
To open up
To let it go
To trust our heart to know

The things we thought would save us
Won’t
The things we thought would prove us
Don’t
The things we thought would make us--
Break us, in the end

Time and tide will show us
Every thing will pass
Love is the truth of who we are
Love is the thing that lasts

Copyright © 2005 Jodi Flesberg Lilly

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