Some exceptions

are worth
making.
Some oddities
are worth
considering,
in the moment,
or the week,
or perhaps
even the months,
when things
simply feel
odd, or off.

Only, it’s not
things that
are off,
it’s you.
And you can’t
quite put
your finger
on it.
There’s
the near immediate
guilt of having
so much
to be thankful
for, to look
forward to,
in your everyday
life.

Yet something
is chafing,
and you can’t
quite figure out
what, where,
or how.

Discomfort.
Sitting with it,
is probably one
of life’s most
profound lessons. Dear friend
to uncertainty, fear of
disappointment.
And discontent. All the cousins
in a row.
This too shall pass,
is what I often say,
and I know that
this is true for
even this.

And perhaps
for now
this
is enough.

~Lu