John Anderson Poet Free verse

Notes About The Poem

"There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen
“You cannot discover new oceans unless you lose sight of the shore.” -  adapted from André Gide
“You don’t drown by falling into the water; you drown by staying there.” - Edwin Louis Cole
"Facing up is not about answers, its the act of no longer looking away when on the cusp to flee of fly" - Author
Facing up is not about answers. It is the couage to no longer look away. - Author

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On the Cusp of Facing Up

There's a faint light beaming up through the cracks
in everything that has the answers.
I stand on the edge peering in,
facing up to the risk of failing, falling in,
on the cusp of not looking away.

No thunder rolls, no curtain calls,
for the silence between 
breaths, blinks, and heartbeats 
holds the final bluff and dare,
as toes reach over the edge
and shadows stall in their recall,
of what might otherwise have been,
on the cusp of facing up.

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