re: juvenation

For...Raven...continued healing, continued journey.
And hope you'll forgive a bit of plagiarized correspondence.

from left ocean's edge
from renewed acquaintance with abundance
you wrote of time and you stretched out together
catching up with yourselves again
loosing hours and expectations
breathing sweet oceanic ions
watching kids and flowers blooming
on their own mysterious calendars

your reach for consciousness
so consistent and commendable and alive
always stretching in and upward for advances
but these tides do have their ebb
necessary regression to bring up
new life from unseen depths
and Love might ask us now and then
to go in over our heads, right,
only for the deepening of our hearts?

you also wrote about showing kindness
to those kids, as to yourself
I titled a reply "re:juvenation"
then saw the word wake and arc into
its playful sleeping components
not only "to recover" or "recharge"
but also "to become young again"
what a miracle
time's neither one-way nor unstoppable

here's to now being wise and wide and spacious
time in all ways open, so much more than linear
here's to finding that sweet secret again
and letting it stretch luxurious into all it loves

time does seem to be playing with us now
draw us backward with its unexpected tidings
lose us in spacious intermissions
making and unmaking, growing us young
slowing when we think it should accelerate
and also, joyfully, the opposite
inviting us back to when we
didn't know too much
returning us to beginnings
and -- such grace --
beginnings to us