Potential

If spring is about potential, then it is also about direction, 

choosing where to send the energy. 

Which seeds to grow, which branches to bud. 

Choosing paths of flow.

Allowing the fern’s unfurling. 

Nourishing our true nature. 

What is it that I am becoming? 

Which version of my life is the universe supporting?

An exhale.

A downstream current.

Not an avoidance of suffering, not a path of manicured happiness,

but a surrendering

to gravity

in order to grow.

And a willingness to feel the vulnerability

of our golden green hopes

taking their first sharp breaths

of the cold spring air.