Keeping

pink sugar
pliable newborn
perfect pump
eager to be primed

steady now
cells blush scarlet
separate & synchronize
                  so grandly

                  expanding into elation
                  joy-rides just beginning

tempo builds
accelerates
time & tides
gather & turn
                  surge on
                  without notice or pity

slowly but certainly
spaces start shrinking
until
uncertain walls
begin bit by bit
to harden
                  & brittleness
                  becomes breakage

challenge: continuation
courage to keep
despite disillusion,
to dare address
                  another dawnlit window,
                  the dark nightload of dreams.