20150706 (selfless sharing)

Every day is like diving 

Into a blue brilliant pool

The sparkle of crystal-like flash water feathers 

The result of a perfect fall

We may not notice the first time

But we accustom to excellence

New goals must be posted

A tighter tuck a quieter splash

The flip first once than twice

Then rotating left or right

Before a clean entrance to the blue deep

It’s harder and harder to celebrate

Another’s gain unless we surrender

Our own prowess and join in their joy

At surpassing their obstacles

What costly loss to set self aside 

Isn’t it really all that we have

The mother the father who takes up their child 

Sings lullabies has crossed to a road 

Not of their making 

The lover who 

Struggles to give something new

Praises the other by taking on

So unrequired a task

Sure flowers candy expected 

Now and then but not gloves hat

That match her new dress

Or pearl earrings she saw in a window

Or reading to the blind elderly

Or taking in an orphan

When they praise you as gifted

Isn’t the grace there to be shared

Sitting alone in a tower growing 

Increasingly powerful what good comes

Of closing the shutters

Ships will crash at night on the rocks

Unless you let your light shine

c. J.S.Manista, 2015