Another gem from the beautiful book "Poetry of Presence". You can find this and more poems on Lynn Ungar's website lynnungar.com
Thank you, Lynn Ungar! So grateful for poetry.
The Way it Is
One morning you might wake up
to realize that the knot in your stomach
had loosened itself and slipped away,
and that the pit of unfulfilled longing in your heart
had gradually, and without your really noticing,
been filled in—patched like a pothole, not quite
the same as it was, but good enough.
And in that moment it might occur to you
that your life, though not the way
you planned it, and maybe not even entirely
the way you wanted it, is nonetheless—
persistently, abundantly, miraculously—
exactly the way it is.
by Lynn Ungar 11/28/15
by Phyllis Cole Dai, Ruby R. Wilson
Lynn Ungar's website: lynnungar.com
Comments