Every New Beginning

Here we are again,

wind-kissed cheeks and watering eyes- 

we have stood at this precipice before, 

daring ourselves to leap, 

stepping back after the first stone fell, 

gasping with wonder and fear and the heartache 

that comes when all that is hard remains. 

Here we are again,

believing that so much more is still possible. 

We weigh feather-soft words against rock solid reality, 

and find them more compelling. 

This is the start of something that has never ended, 

the zenith of the unbroken circle, 

the apex of all we hold silent and dear.

Here we are again,

though we have lived this day like so many of its brothers, 

it shimmers with hope. 

Let all that is white and new and fresh 

begin within us, beloved. 

We will see the dawn painted across a thousand new horizons, 

and we will no longer be afraid.