What Came Before.

her life taps her on the shoulder and she turns around to see that it looks nothing like what came before. and she wonders what made the star that was her continuing subsistence explode to become the remarkable days she savors now what catalyst took the combining experiences and made them into something so new that it doesn’t even resemble what came before. when she looks into his eyes she sees things she never thought could be real colors never imagined appear in plenty and landscapes change from grey and flat and lonely to lush and new and bright and when she looks away she sees a world that has a rightness that never was in what came before. and her heart flies now instead of sinking under weight it rises with its corners filled lightness pervades her being these days and she feels so much more of the good than she ever did in what came before. and when her life taps her on the shoulder and she turns around to see what it looks like she smiles a smile that looks nothing at all like what came before.