Dive In

Dive in
beyond the reef.

And what will you call it?
What will you name
this grand adventure?

Will you call it
"Into the deep,"
"The day I finally learned to breathe,"
"The strength I did not know I would need,"
or will you simply call it
"Be"?
For after all,
this is what
you are doing:
discovering
the courage
living inside of you
is not as distant
as it seemed.

No matter how this season ends,
you will walk away knowing
what you did not know back then.
This year will not end like last year,
nor any other year before.

Poem from Morgan Harper Nichols book, All Along You Were Blooming