The Daily Boost #717

You have made your path ready

Photo by George Hiles on Unsplash

COMING TO FRUITION
Kate Franzmann

For sixty years you waited.
Hiding behind your fears.
Tag-along daughter, sister, wife.
Pull-along mother. Again and again
someone for someone else.

Now. Exactly now be someone for you.
Push your fears behind you into hiding.
Pull your dreams out one by one.
Dust and all—they are yours,
For no one else.

You have made your path ready.
Fear nothing. Brandish hidden strength.
You pulled long and hard against yourself.
Step tall and full into this world at last:
You. Entirely.

(My thanks to Kate Franzmann, via Rafter

Ronnie Hess

and Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.)

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