Change Is Not A Comfy Sweater

This post started while hanging out laundry

and contemplating Comfy...

One thing I love in fall is pulling out old sweaters

that have certainly seen better days

but have such a comfy, cozy coming-home feeling!

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Change is definitely not a comfy sweater!

2020 has forced all of us into certain 'outfits' we would never choose

but must learn to adapt to, and wear!

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Change keeps us on our toes...

Ballerinas poised on joy's highs and lows

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Change yanks us from easy chairs 

to balance-beams

Thank God for books; yellow with age 

amidst change-fueled streams

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Change is much more than a mirror

Playing back the view

Change is like a subtle shearer

Of sheep, and wolves too

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Change is a symphony of Touch

Give and take synchronized

Look, while we try new shoes and such

It steals The Old we prized

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Change; inevitable matter of Fact

Stretch if you must but keep Focus intact

Sooner or later, as change takes its toll

It will take all but Creator and Soul

 

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Change is a strange, familiar thing

As common as a clock

Eternity hinged to a string

Thinned with each tick and tock

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Tick-tock, tick-tock

If we could see 

Time's filigree unwind

With each tick-tock 

I think we'd all be

More humble and kind

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Change sometimes makes me feel a bit like I am stuffed into 

An outfit snug and stiff, uncomfortable, brand new 

I’d rather wear something kind of threadbare but broken in 

Because I feel much more at home in Routine’s Rags, worn thin 

Change sometimes makes me feel like a child at a wishing well

Or middle-aging student learning how to read and spell 

Where familiar failures and successes are not enough 

To shield me from new guessing-lessons about life and love 

Change sometimes makes me happy but more often breaks the mold 

That feels like so much like my own skin, well-adapted and old 

Till estrangements and fresh arrangements stretch and test and try 

Change is a ladder to stars that keep falling from the sky 

© Janet Martin