☀️ The Daily Boost #867

Choose your risk

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RISK
Elizabeth Appell

And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom.

(My thanks to Elizabeth Appell, via Mary Christine Delea. I’m especially happy to learn the correct attribution for this poem. The poet is not Anaïs Nin, as I’d believed.)

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