Poised [poem]

Impossible and fleeting moment

of celestial balance

astronomical equality

manifest on earth and labelled

equinox

(not equilux)

and signalling the joyful bound

of spring

Yin and yang! Old and new!

Death and birth – yoked

and equal –

shimmering, perhaps

like Schrödinger’s cat

both dead and alive.

Or neither. Or both.

Fractal joy! Tender potential!

Poised

amid the possibilities

                the entanglements

                the goings and comings

                the darks and the lights

                the hopes and the dreams

                the leaves

                                and the petals

This budding life

this striving, yearning, holding, hoping

This insistence

this hunger

this ceaseless urge

So fragile! So determined!

So tentative! So resilient!

So terrifying! So wonderful!

So terrified! So brave.

Equinox, equilux

the light, the dark,

this earthly life:

forged of stars

born of love

made of moments