risk

"Sooner or later . . . we have to risk everything in order to gain everything. We have to gamble on the invisible and risk all that we can see and taste and feel.” Thomas Merton

Soft autumn breezes,

hills: brown, blue, violet - black

moving to nothing.

risk it all, keep no-

thing in your hand; grasp thin air

and take everything.

taste your fears, salt-tears

sting your eyes; glare like the sun-

set on the last day.