"Change"

Change

 

For some, change is as natural as breathing,
necessary, required, essential.
To live without it would be to die on the vine,
neglected, unsatisfied, empty.

For others, change is near-impossible to fathom,

as frightening as a world without structure,
as terrifying as death itself,
inconceivable, as what lies beyond. 

But every once in a while,

when the universe sighs
and realities fold,
change becomes possible
for the most resolute of souls.

Subtle signs of life appear, 

seen by few, understood by fewer, 
but present in the world, nonetheless. 
No longer just in the world,
but finally, a part of it.




               ~~~

    

First published in India-USA Magazine / February 2014

Subsequently published in Ceremony: A Journal of Poetry and Other Arts / Spring 2014