You Will Fall

If you are young, then must understand that you will keep falling. Life is a debt that we owe to the universe. The loaner does not demand repayment immediately or in total. We are allowed to enjoy the rewards this debt has given us. But we must pay the debt back later, coin by coin, until the total of what we owe is repaid. There is no peace from it. It is constant. If you can hide from it, or build walls to defend yourself, or never hear about it, then your are the unlucky ones. Others must become its neighbour.

It is not hopeless. This loaner does not have more power than smiles, or kisses, or touch. These small things show it cannot interfere. And that although it will have the final say it must wait, and wait, and wait, and cannot give way to impatience. It knows this. It must wait for us to finish dancing. It must wait for us to finish telling each other stories, or reminding each other of hopes and dreams. It must wait whilst we sit with kids.