Living

Sometimes

Sometimes life fails to move me.

Sometimes I could sleep forever,
be buried under snow and ice and freeze.

Sometimes I forget that
life is change and struggle.
pain is part of the process.
burning is needed for new trees to grow.

Sometimes I try to mute emotions,
suppress desire, love and loss,
cast out doubt,
dispense with anger,

Sometimes I neglect to dwell on the past,
stop contemplating the future,
am asleep to the present.

I live in numb existence.

But you...

you pull down the walls that mark out time,
flood my world with yesterdays and tomorrows,
throw me into the now.

you fill me with every emotion I can name

and more.