In our world,

we hang by a string,

only that, a thread of despair,

measures our resilience, fortitude, confidence.

Yet every day,

with each waking hour,

when we see a smile,

without ever knowing what created that

we simply walk away,

in acceptance,

when we see tears, that don’t get in our way,

we imagine

compassion

is a sense of worth, a seeming reality,

… enough to get us all to the other side.