JUST AS I'M CHANGING

Just as I'm changing
Everything else does
No toe holds to support 
No finger grabs to help move on 
Left in mid-air 
Hanging...

 

Life's recipe
Not daring to open my eyes 
Gaze around
Look down
Nowhere to go 
Nothing to do...

 

Just as I'm growing 
Healing and settling 
Scree sends me sliding 
Back on my bum 
Reeling and hurting
Landslide of self-pity...

 

Over The Edge 
Clinging a liana 
Nature has thrown at me.
Scrambling in terror
Back to the top
To begin again.

 

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