Day 242: No Guarantees

Things change and though the innate nature of the change is understood, it is not always accepted. This nature of not having guaranteed outcomes is both challenging as well as liberating. It means we can sometimes be whatever is needed from us, whatever our world needs us to be, but if you are not looking carefully enough we can change. This nature of change, this lack of guarantees is explored, there are no guarantees that things are easy. Yet from the best of these days, these words will be written anyway.

No Guarantees
There is nothing unchanged here, there are no guarantees
Just quiet faith that I am right where I needed to be
Nothing held in illusions of the day, no promises made
We are hiding from the cold winter & the sun & even the shade

There are no prerequisites, no list of things to be done
Fresh beginning about the things we write, our days have only begun
Painted on the sidewalks, on the walls and even thoughts sometimes
We are hopeful of improbable things, sometimes dreamers into the night

Chances are, that in the late hours of this day
When the lights are switched off, some things will refuse to stay
Meanings have changed of what used to be
We are no longer looking for perfect answers or guarantees

Your lazy chair reclines just a little bit more
You will stare out the window and do the things you did before
You will pause even if for a while, to see how things have changed
The world gives you no guarantees, as life it is rearranged

Friend on the porch and outside many doors
They are loud voices of people we don't hear anymore
Yet they are reminders that we are whatever we are, as needed to be
Living without promises made & with no gurantees