Who Have You Become?

October 26, 2021

Who Have You Become?

By Amba Gale

Somewhere
in the fall
of this second year
still in the passage
still in the migration
still moving into Stillness
still not hearing the future,
we nourish our spirit.

The ghosts of what might have been are leaving now,
to plague us no longer with their voices and their “coulda, woulda, shoulda”
charms,
and drop photos in our minds which leave us with regrets.
Let their bony fingers wave goodbye to this time of
grieving for what might have been.

Time, instead, for new words:
Accept.
Embrace.
Surrender.
Create.
Choose.
Trust.

We can look newly at the sea the sun the moon the sky.

We can be willing
to be surprised
by who we have become,
who we are becoming.