strength isn't easy
  to balance
being flexible
  and free

not enough willingness
and trust to let go
means pain and the inevitable
restriction of motion

while not enough determination
to structurally bear the weight
means the inevitable decay
into growing dysfunction

there is no definitive
riding any wave
taking us along
only our own legs
planted on our board
with the pull of moon
willing waters along

it's still the same
after all the time
we have been able
  to know
  through words
what another thinks
or chooses to share
with us even absent
across time, letters
from ink or shapes
carved into stone
inherited one soul
to another chooses;
might try to see
from that moment,
sat down in a singular
  void to fill
with no words yet
which might convey
why it matters
  for either