Starting Anew as an Adult

by

Joris John Heise

Each agony can birth ne w belief, a born-againness
Which twists us from much too much mom-tradition,
To push us unpleasantly toward a purer personhood.

We feel urge to stay fastened, still-born—
Itt foists fear and fumbling and is our reluctance:
We’d rather stop, careful--comfortable as couch potatoes.

But Other intrudes our "O, no!" opposition—
Our liking to be left alone, to be lazy, to be lost.
To wing witty word--bullets against complex worlds.

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It is so hard for human men to hurt with birth,
To open guts and give life by giving ear to God!
We’d rather mire in old, old, old, old mindings,

Our goal, though, is to eject externals grandmas gave us
And accept the premiss that we are pregnant with promise,
With hope, hello to strangers, and happy whimsy.

The click of new life occurs in the un-self-conscious new kid,
Who loves whoever, and who overlooks sweetly,
And who hears old news with forgiving ears.

NEXT?
Why don't you look at Perhaps you cannot boast
by: Francis Duggan
from: Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia

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