CALL ME BELOVED

“To be, or not to be, that is the question: whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?” – Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

we’re made of stronger stuff then it feels, sometimes –
durable and unyielding. the more I look the more I choose
to classify humankind as stubborn, in a word – we resist
all opposing forces, we transmute, we adapt.
shakespeare called the day-to-day pains of living
slings and arrows of outrageous fortune – a fine
depiction of the glory of waking to the late morning sun,
outrageous fortune. I turn the words over and over in my head,
a warming thought in my core that dulls away the nicks
and stings of those arrowheads and stones.