Life Sometimes is Hard

Life sometimes is hard.
There are challenges.
There are difficulties.
As a younger man
I sought to avoid them
and only ever caused myself
more of the same.

These days
I choose to meet life head on
— and I have become a comet.
I arc across the sky of my life
and the harder times are the friction
that lets the worn and tired bits
drop away.

It’s a good way to travel;
eventually I will wear away
all resistance
until all there is left of me
is light.

I can live towards that end.

Richard Wagamese
photo: Chris Pietsch