Relief

We know it is close
To something lofty.
Simply getting over being sick
or finding lost property
has in it the leap,
the purge, the quick humility
of witnessing a birth -  
how love seeps up
and retakes the earth. 
There is a dreamy, 
wading feeling to your walk
inside the current of restored riches, 
clocks set back, 
disasters averted. 

- Kay Ryan