Liam Barr

I walked out tonight already glad.
The next chapter has started and it feels right.

I wasn't looking for a sign.
My mind was made up.

Then I looked up.
A thin crescent tipped over on its back.
The whole thing shaped like a smile.

It told me nothing I didn't know.

It agreed.

The moon is only a few days into this phase.
So am I.

You keep checking whether you're ready.
The answer comes back blurry every time.

Ready is a feeling built from things you've already done.
The next thing hasn't happened yet.
It has nothing to build from.

So nothing you were ready for has ever changed you.

You walked into the best of it green.
Green and wide awake.

You can go unready.
Ready is what this one is going to make you.

Someone helps in a way we didn't ask for.
The advice arrives uninvited.
They tidy the pile we knew our way around.
The questions keep coming while we are trying to think.

We react to the form the help came in.
Not the reason it came.

Help will not always arrive in the form we wanted.
It arrives in the form they had.

The frustration can stay with us.
It does not have to reach them.

They were not trying to wear us down.
They were trying to help.