Bloom where you are planted.
Sometimes it takes just one
step when you would rather
not put the effort into trying,
when alone sounds safer
than joining the crowd,
when solace becomes
a hold on you, a way
to become safely lost,
but if you just step,
a whole new world
might open up
and take you to places
those paths of safety
never could, and even
better, you have company
and conversation
along the way, even
companionable silence
becomes harmony
in a way stark aloneness
never could.
—C.L. Fisher, July 2021
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