The Daily Boost #774

Let the door disappear

THE DOOR OPENED
Nancy Hamilton

The door opened, and in she walked
  through the door marked No
  through the door marked Stop
  through the door marked Not You
  through the door marked Not Now

She walked through the door freely and openly and innocently,
the door not even knowing she had passed through

The same door once also said
             Hurt
               Anger
                  Doubt
                      Distrust
             Restlessness
                Righteousness
                   Resignation
                      Desperation

The door said all those things all at once, but
by the time she got there, the door had disappeared
It was so wide open that it ceased to be a door

        Just Openness
              to here
              to now
              to stopping
              to going
              to you in me and me in you
              to nowhere in particular and everywhere all at once

                                      When I looked back,
I saw her coming through the door again
and as she disappeared through it ahead of me, I noticed underfoot
a silvery stream shimmering in the cool evening light—
             a trail of fallen hinges,
             unclasped and
             holding on to nothing

(My thanks to Nancy Hamilton, via The Dewdrop.)

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