More Powerful Than Negative Thinking

We start with laughter

allow the song of morning travel

in our bones.

Allow its music to sit in our marrow

because somewhere in our chest,

a flame is fanning across the darkness.

And we have been here before

where the sadness breathes

So we quietly sipped our own tears

in service to the ache,

But a flame is fanning across,

It will split us from ear to ear

The roar of our laughter

beating against eardrums

announcing the joy like a thousand hallelujahs stuck in our throats-

Do you hear it?

It sounds like we swallowed an avalanche and set it free.

Like we danced in the aftershocks of an earthquake

knowing what it feels like to tremble

from worry to wonder,

to hide hope in our fingernails and let them grow,

And if ever we forget how to lean into a smile,

We will start with laughter.