What if it all works out?

what if what if what if everything you ever wanted fell down upon you so soft and so plentiful and you surrendered to the joy of it all? what if the numbness serves not to deliver you from pain but to dull the roots of your greatness and your hope and spirit? and what if it really is just water weight and a teardrop could fill the ocean and save you if only you could let it go? what if breathing in and expanding deep instead of compressing, compressing, compressing like you were taught, what if that space inside you blooms roses and chrysanthemums and hyacinth through the scar tissue and fascia in the deep dark cave of your belly like a universe expanding forever in each borrowed inhale on this borrowed earth in our borrowed bodies through love that is not borrowed but earned and owned by the soul ad infinitum. ... - Watermark is for preview only