Sunday, September 10, 2023

Falling Every Year

The man is falling again 
head first, 
in the pose of the Hanged Man in the Tarot. 
This is what I notice, because I do. 
Suffering is as unavoidable as rain, 
and death comes for all of us. 
Could it have been avoided? 
We don't avoid the falling every year, 
but I don't know that we have the lesson 
down to heart yet. 
The cards flip over: 
the tower reversed 
and this poor soul plummeting. 
A card presented to us until 
we nearly forget this was a man.

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