Resilience

I get to choose
I get to do difficult things

Easy teaches little
Falling teaches more

I choose to stand up
more than the falls
to learn balance
               walking
               running
   balancing when wrong footed
      standing for what is mine

baby steps –
each a dance
between falling forward
and catching myself
      re-balancing
      reaching
      stretching
      falling with purpose

the more I do
the more I become
the more I am

Testing the boundaries
in my body
           mind
           beliefs
           growth
           becoming

Awarification
     of how I stretch
     where I can build
     where to let go
     where to let grow

Respecting my
     achievement
     knowledge
     wisdom
     failing forward

Building on my strongest foundations
in youth 
as in dotage.