Anticipating the Blossom Before the Bloom
An ode to writing and becoming.
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We become ourselves
surrounded by the words we write,
word after word,
we write ourselves into being.
.
Building words first,
then climbing up after them,
growing sentences before soul,
yet sentences rooted in the
very soil of that soul,
we write ourselves into being.
.
I climb the ladder of my words,
knowing with each step
I move farther from the person I was,
and closer to the person I am still becoming.
.
My words are a simultaneous
being and becoming.
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The being that I am,
the becoming I have yet to know.
Why are we afraid knowing
we do not know
who we will be?
The uncertainty
makes some
want to
stop.
.
But me, I look up the ladder,
incomplete, undetermined,
until I write it into being.
I know not where it goes,
I know not who I will become,
but for all that
I anticipate the blossom
before the bloom,
and continue on.
.
Knowing who I become
is rooted in who I am,
yet craning its neck to the sun.
.
And knowing, with deep gratitude,
the sun nurtures growth
rooted in love
and wonder
that we exist at all.
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About the Creator
Sara Rose
I craft stories that begin with an emotion and have a philosophical bent.✨
"Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." Rainer Maria Rilke
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Comments (1)
Beautiful.