Wednesday, February 18, 2015
When the Earth Opened
When the Earth Opened
All those things
you thought you would never survive
but you did.
When the ground crumbled under
your feet
and the earth opened
and you fell
into the dark chasm
where nothing was.
Somehow
you made it
back to the light,
and knew that whatever
came next,
this too you would survive,
for now you knew where
the soft places were,
the ones waiting to
give way and
swallow you again,
but now they had shrunken
to invisibility,
road signs that said,
Beware:
Danger up Ahead.
Dorothy Walters
February 18, 2015
