Untitled #1, 2020

I wait for transition

knowing I am loved

knowing slowness is not failure

the time is static in my brain

knowing when I come back

my heart beats to the rhythm

of life

I wait for my turn

on the road winding

toward a dark tunnel

“it’s pretty dark right up the last few hundred yards”

but even I know there is light

there at the end and edge

of the world

there is a threshold to cross

dark to light

I am holding their hands

so I go through

tethered to myself before

that made myself now

going over last is no failure

I am me in all phases

if no one sees it

they know no love

I bear into my readiness

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©Abigail Siegel, 2020

**The quote is from the classic film “Now, Voyager” (1942)**