ROUND AND ROUND SHE GOES by Cynthia Cady Stanton

 

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ROUND AND ROUND SHE GOES

Same old coffee,

Same old sound of the heat kicking on,

Same old kitty begging for a treat.

Same old aches in the shoulders and hips. 

Same old face in the mirror 

with wrinkles that haven’t magically disappeared

as promised.

Same old anxieties arise from the heart,

bringing the same old grip to muscles and joints.

It’s a new day 

and another chance to begin afresh, but

everything already feels and looks 

the same. 

I wonder where gratitude fits in

when discovering change is the desire

amidst the predictable and suffocating sea.

And yet,

what if change arrives with a new symptom

or a devastating loss?

What if there is a crushing fall 

or a sudden crisis arriving with a distraught voice on the phone?

Change can arrive like that

in an instant.

This is a reality in the vulnerableness of  life.

We all know this.

So maybe greeting the every day familiar

is a good thing…

and waking up in the same landscape

is cause for celebration.

Perhaps remembering to be grateful

really does provide the way out…

Suddenly, Wisdom brings a perceptible lift

gifting a newness to the day.

© Cynthia Cady Stanton

Cynthia Cady Stanton is a woman with a deepening awareness of life and spirit and a desire to share her spiritual understandings as a way to be a helpful and healing presence for others. She lives in the roles of mom, wife, friend, sister, and grief counselor. Cynthia is what she describes as "an accidental poet." She discovered her poetic voice four years ago while writing in a coffee shop. Since then, she has published hundreds of poems on her blog. Her voice is one of reassurance and higher understanding. She offers her writings as a means to promote love, grace, mindfulness, and healing. Cynthia has been a featured contributor several times on Phoebe.com and has had a poem nominated for poem of the month on Spillwords.com. You can find her poems here: becomingandbeholding.com.

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