Opening Doors

Doors close easily.

What is hard is to open

A door that is closed.

They say when one door closes,

Another opens.

But there is not always an automatic

Sensor.

Sometimes, we have to open the door ourselves.

But the uncertainty of what awaits us on the other side

Forces us to pause, at times step back,

Other times, run the hell away.

Sometimes, the door is sliding glass.

How grateful we are when we see what we get—

Yet sometimes, we forget that we have to slide the door open,

And we walk straight into the glass,

Ending up with a bump,

Losing our balance,

Wondering what happened- we had been so close,

What we wanted had been just within reach.

Other times, the door is revolving.

We walk through it,

But we end up right back where we started.

And yet other times, the door is opaque.

I opened such a door once,

And everything on the other side came crashing down.

So how do we find the courage to open a door?

We remember that if we do not reach out to turn the handle,

Push the button or slide the glass,

We will be forced to move backwards or remain stagnant,

And will deprive ourselves of the chance to move forward,

To grow, to live.