Shards - 13 - The Joy Finch

Shards - The 1 Poem Podcast of Cameron Semmens

wait un-fisted with all your openness seeded with hope and joy will visit like a finch from the dark understory and joy will return with a sudden flit and flash of colour no matter what sadly you will be unhappy at times and all those around you and all those you love will be unhappy at times but equally no matter what joy will visit fleeting fine-feathered it will swoop in from the corner of your vision arrive when you least expect did you know the finch can only flourish with access to dense undergrowth? perhaps all the thorny tangled mess of unhappiness in this world is just a frame a shield a home for this flighty little bird no matter what joy will visit joy will return but it can’t stay it can’t stay if you grasp for it and try to hold onto it it’ll be gone even before your fingers unfurl so just be still and joy will at some point arrive at your side ‘til then wait un-fisted with all your openness seeded with hope