AVANT SOUL

Each year gives us a chance
					to cover
the same old path, and uncover new ground. Structure is surprisingly
flexible or inflexible, depending upon
one's duties. As each hour is filled, 
the spaces in-between are obvious
yet intensely secret portals which point to
the very doorways which bring us through to understanding.

To embrace a more uplifting future,
consider now these tiny, unassuming spaces. 

As each threshold passes, bow to the doorkeeper and enter
						    (*or restrategize*).

	Without lengthy explanation nor analysis, 
	venture into the collected doorways
	of
	numinous, luminous, tiny doors.


They may only minutes be, they
may only moments be entered,
and as your forays accrue, your
feet
	and path
			 and
				 daring

Gather ch'i, accumulate energy,
	and alter your destiny.

	Small moments
marshaled together, like voluminous
	petals of flowers tethered

On a necklace of belonging, until


Renewed
and
reacquainted 
		with your being

	you have gathered all the leis 
	and garlands of your days,

Till that revitalizing fragrance of your life
	is infused

with perfume, a genuine sweet nectar of hope

that from such tiny doorways 
				continually entered
			and
threaded together


	bring a fresh landscape,  a thousand-petaled lotus

of life utterly changed and awakened


Entering into the tiny centers of unending flowering moments 

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