We ALL Fall DOWN!

We ALL

Fall DOWN

We ALL

Get

Back UP

NOT

Always

As

PLAYFULLY

Or

GENTLY

As

Circling

With our friends

Chanting

“RING AROUND

The

ROSIE”

But

We DO

ALL Fall Down

It is

INDEED

A Part

Of

LIFE

Inevitable

EVIDENCE

We are

OUT

In this World

LIVING

This GREAT Adventure

Doing

Being

Experimenting

Risking

Exploring

Leaping

Walking

OUR Path

ONE step

At

A TIME

Sailing

OUR Vessel

Wave

By

Wave

STAYING

The Course

Moment

By

Moment

HOLDING

The Vision

Breath

By

Breath

No MATTER

How Many Times

We FALL Down

We ARE

Wired

To Get

UP!

UP!

UP!

Rising

HIGHER

Than Before

Even When

We Give UP

HOPE

Never GIVES Up

On

US

LIFTING

US

Taking

US

Beyond

OUR Imagination

INTO

More

THE TRUTH

Of

ALL that

We ARE

This LOVE

That Parts

The SEAS

And

MOVES

The Mountains

Returning

US

HOME

Again

And

Again

Falling DOWN

We SCREAM

OUT

In Fear

In Pain

Bruised

Battered

STUNNED

By

Life

AND

Laying

There

WOUNDED

The OPPORTUNITY

Comes

We TAKE

The HAND

Of Another

And

Allow

Them to HELP

US

We FIND

Our Way

To

OUR FEET

Sometimes

We even

BOUNCE

Right back

UP

Onto

Our OWN

2 Feet

It Ain’t Always

PRETTY

And

We Don’t Have To

PRETEND

It IS

Sometimes

We Have To

BE STILL

Feel

ALL

That Floods

IN

Letting

It

ALL

Wash

UP

And

OUT

And

In PERFECT Time

We DISCOVER

New GROUND

New LIFE

New LEGS

In Which

To STAND

To CARRY Us

INTO

What’s NEXT?!

ALL

That IS

Yet To BE

The GIFTS

Of

FALLING DOWN

Are

Essential

Like

A SLING Shot

We ARE

Catapulted

INTO

Our DESTINY

Unfolding

In

The MESS

And

In

The EASE

ALL BeautyFULL

Knowing

WE ALL

Fall Down

We ARE

COMPASSIONATE

Caregiver

Of

OUR Souls

And

The SOULS

Of

ALL Beings

Together

We RISE

Fueled

By

This ONE LOVE

Poetically

At PLAY

Through

US

In the Moments

We BLESS

And

The MOMENTS

We Curse

OUR Shared Story

Of

HUMANITY

Living

HOLOGRAMS

Living

PRAYERS

Unique

EXPRESSIONS

Of the Divine

Each of

US

Doing

Our PART

FALLING DOWN

GETTING UP

RISING

Higher

And

Higher

And

Higher.

I got an email message from a friend last evening with the subject:  This Reminds me of YOU!  It was words of wisdom from an unknown author that are simple yet profound.  I awakened this day with the vibration of the message still churning through me mystically and poetically which inspired today’s poem and blog.  And I just had to share what it said:  There comes a time in your life when you walk away from the drama and people who create it.  You surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad and focus on the good.  Love the people who treat you right and pray for those who don’t.  Life is too short to be anything but happy.  Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is LIVING…”

The invitation this day is to be present to your Self wherever you are as a compassionate caregiver of your Soul.  Look back on your falls.  And extract the gifts, spin the lead into gold and let go of the Story, let go of identifying with what happened to you and stand in this moment empowered with a sense of Bigness.  We are not the falls.  We are far more than the story!  The essence of who we are and all life is this force of Love that picks us up when we want to stay down, that inspires us to get back up and LIVE…Living for the love of living is the richest life!  Life is too damn short to stay stuck in our stories of limitation keeping our energy tethered in the past.  And it is the falls that teach us this.  We must fight for our happy, for a life we love fiercely tapping into this well, this abiding joy that lies in each of us if we dare to call on it riding waves of amazing grace, rising higher and higher and higher.