Rising

Enthusiasm waxes and wanes

like a full, brilliant moon rising, fading into a blackened horizon until the sun beams through the darkest of clouds defining the misty shadows of the sky while sinking slowly into the next horizon creating confusion and then clarity

so that rest finally comes softly

to come awake again with each rising.

“….. just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.”

~  Len Goodman,  British dancer

Author's note: Edited February 23, 2024