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Inner Tides and Outer Moons

Inner Tides and Outer Moons

Just like Earth and her moon
Our own body-mind fluxes 
With and within the cycle of tides.
Up-down, strong-weak, high-low
We swell and contract in a rhythm 
That effects if not controls us all.

Maybe it’s even what makes us care
About others and what others think of us
Since without the flux
We’d be more consistent
And so more confident, less needy 
And thus more independent.

But at a certain point,
Maybe what we call mid-life
We should have learned that no matter
The flux is ours and not up to others
To verify, confirm or even acknowledge 
Who we are, our successes and failures.

A body-mind in flux
After all is a mystery 
In the process of becoming
But after at least fifty years of becoming
We should have become familiar enough
To know what is and what’s ahead.

At least to know
That there will always be 
Change and more change,
And that the key to a mature
If not always happy body-mind
Is a measure of self reliance.

(3/23/25)

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