Second time around

Seizure #2 yesterday, at internship.  It*s been nine months since #1.  I thank God for the last nine months (and before).  I thank God for my being able to learn from such things.  Still, some learnings I could do without. This doesn*t seem to be my choice.  Rarely does such learning come with choice.  I knew this.  Now I know it again.

The second time around on anything,

It*s amazing what we learned the first time.

Sometimes it*s not until the second time

That we see

The sun still shines

The birds still sing

Even the fall light shows things

Fuller.

The second time we wake up

Our friends and family

Are newly awake as well.

Here we all are

Standing

Leaning

 in one place.

We pick up again.

We know this has happened

Before.