May you walk softly between the rows
that you have planted for yourself
May you revel in the beauty of the garden
that has been yours to create
May you decide to plant each seed
not based on a measurement of how worthy
their fruition will make you
but based on how the dreaming of them
May you cultivate creativity
and know that even the weeds that they call
have a place and a story to tell that is worth hearing
may you respond to them with love
May you choose what to tend to
but with how easily and eagerly
your breath rises to meet them each day
with how effortlessly your hands hold them
or how effortlessly they let them be
with how strongly your heart beats at the thought of them
and with how brightly your spirit shines
May you plant garden after garden of this kind of life
until the entire landscape of your life has grown wild
and is dripping with the beauty
of a lifetime’s worth of sunrises and sunsets
May you no longer balance pieces of who you are
May you choose your own definition of balance
one which allows for the expansions
to match your outer world
May you forget the shame of taking the day
and release the guilt of working over time
may you remember there is no badge for either
May you walk softly toward all that bridges the gap
one bare footfall after another
until you are surrounded by connection
completely removed from that which created you versus them
embodying the remembrance
EDITOR: KHARA-JADE WARREN
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