For Chris

I trust
that the waves
of your
new life are
being kind.
And that
your curiosity
is finding a
soft landing with
kindred spirits
in this
new chapter.

Our environments
do reinvent us,
perhaps subtly
at first, yet over
time they
help
unlock a new
sense of who
we are, and
can grow into.

This is my wish
for you: the addition
of colour to your
full-cream living. New
adventures
and pathways. The
unlocking, and
dusting off
of marvelous
bits
of yourself, that
may have slipped
behind
the couch of life, and
everyday adulting.

Know that
you are wonderful.
And kind, and
generous, and that
these precious things
that aren’t things,
should also be
practised in one’s own
life, on oneself.

~ Lu