Sometimes we don*t do things until the conditions are right. Sometimes we don*t do things until the first step has been taken. Open the door.
Not quite warm enough today
To open the front door,
Leave it open.
Maybe it will be
Later on.
Four weeks in
My client has left the door open
To his room to be painted.
He has cleared out the dirty laundry,
Fixed the closet door.
He has purchased the paint.
The room
Will be robin*s egg blue.
He waits until he can open
The windows.
Maybe this week
He says,
Maybe this week.
My beloved mentions
Meeting a former student
In an elevator.
The student told my beloved
How helpful he had been
With his advice.
What advice?
Asked the man to whom
I am married,
What advice?
Oh
Said the student,
The time you said:
Sometimes we don*t do things
Until we*re ready.
Open the door
I say
Open the door
Leave it open
Someday that room
Will be robin*s egg blue
The birds will sing
Through the open door,
Through windows
Flung open.
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