Spring is for Second Chances

Photo of Courtney Moody

A Poem by Alexis Ragan

Originally Published in http://thewayback2ourselves.com

Take it all in.

Swallow the day whole like children

do candy, be in it so fully that the sun

will be bursting from the seams of your skin,

breathe in the air of today, all you can,

so that you too can float like a balloon who

knows its only destination is up.

You know what it feels to lack sunshine,

to be locked out of freedom,

or so you kept yourself from it —

You, glossed over by shade,

made no room to bloom,

walked a spring-less season once,

missed the arrival of renaissance

within the flowering crevices of

the “other side”— the news of it staying

lighter later didn’t reach you, so you

stayed waiting in the dark.

But spring is for second chances,

a time to come alive, to let everything

that buzzes and blooms grow around you,

like Roman statues in gardens that exist

for the living to wrap beautifully

around its very frame.

But you are more than mere marble,

and you do more than just exist.

You found, in your resurrection,

that there isn’t a moment to waste.

There isn’t a day unnamed.

So, take it all in!

Every spirited bit of it!

Make room, make room.