Live It Slant

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
– Emily Dickinson

A life well lived is no flat passage.
There are bumps and hollows,
pinnacles and valleys.
Looking up from the path,
beyond the next step,
it is surprising to see
where the road is leading:
sometimes straight up into the blue,
sometimes a plunge into an abyss.

Living slant is each step taken
with eyes focused ahead–
no looking back;
even if the climb exhausts,
the descent precipitous,
to tread unafraid to reach
a destination unknown
yet sure.

Live life but live it slant.

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