such is life: for it,
we sometimes weep.
and when weeping and wailing
we take grip to a railing to sturdy ourselves.
but life, sometimes, sends us sailing
into places where there is
no comfort in sturdiness:
where the ocean waves never
come to rest, where life is always
moving, in growth and in death.

[perhaps unfinished, like so many things.]

© Cheryl E. Fitzgerald August 2006