All That Falls

Do you love things that cascade?
Do you adore rain falling in sheets
or over the ledge, splashing clear joy?
Do you love velvet drapes plunging

into a royal red pile on the stage of life?
How about wisteria, how it drenches
spring in ribbons of lush lavender,
how the breathless beauty falls

through cracks, over fences,
how it softens the edges of anything?

Then there is the matter of the knees.
Slowly, willingly they descend
into the dark depths when all
is lost, or seems to be.

What falls calls you
unfastens you
opens you.

With time, lifts you.

From 100 Words: Small Servings of Whimsy and Wisdom to Calm the Mind and Nourish the Heart, (Balboa Press, 2018). Posted by kind permission of the poet. 

Terri Crosby

Terri Crosby is a relationship mentor, writer, blogger and speaker with a private consulting practice for individuals and couples. She believes improving relationships with others starts (and stays) with ourselves, and that it takes only one person to change a marriage. Find out more about her work and blog at InCareofRelationships.com. Terri is currently writing a book for women who have been married multiple times which will be published by Balboa Press later this year.

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