Awareness

Awareness takes hold, threatening the false tranquility filling the whites of our eyes. It's a hard world but we need to see the rock in front of us if we want to move it out of the way. Whether we actually want to is another matter entirely. There is comfort in standing still as the world moves past us, the rock staying with us always to hold us in place. Perhaps that's why denial is so common; it's easier not to think, even if it means denying our own strengths along with the weaknesses.

Awareness of strength lessens weakness as the waxing of the moon lessens its dark side, a shining disk of silver lighting the dark sky with its fullness.