Always Beginning

Beginning happens

long before we know it has begun

Before we have let go

In darkness,

before storm clouds arrive,

thunder rumbles,

and lightning sparks

Even as the rain falls,

it is just the beginning

Destruction and creation,

death and birth,

as a paradox

together in one moment

Before she came bumbling,

tumbling into the morning

Landing on her back

in sudden stillness

I believed she had come to die

I stayed with her

Turning her over, she began to move

Shimmer

Brand New

Born into Her Time

Oh! Cicada

Born to mate, lay eggs, and die

Letting go of who she has been

Leaving us her beautiful shell

Proof she was here

We are always beginning,

birthing a river inside, dying to ourselves

There is only Here

Now, I see death and birth

With one eye

But, I have not always.