In Ripples on the Snow

-------In Ripples on the Snow-------

Outside it's quiet and it is still,

but the winds of last night remain 

in ripples on the snow.

Magic tugs on a parents eyes

while their kids go about playing

like it's always there.

It is safer 

to stay inside, in away 

from any chance to slip and fall upon the ice.

It is safer to hide the fear away within oneself,

and to curse the frozen world outside

without taking the chance to feel it first.

But out there, we find

in the cold and wind, and ice and snow

that there is much more to life than living safely and afraid.

Our courage is out among those rippled patterns;

a courage to face the ideas we have of what is real,

of how to feel and how to live.

To step outside of what we know 

is to invite in 

the beauty of what we don't.

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