On Pain

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus

Life alternates between embracing you
and casting you far away.
It has to be that way.
We have no reaction without action.
And that is the way the world has always been.
We suffer now because one day
we are going to experience joy so radiant
we will instantly forget the pain
that raged inside you during the journey.
We are patient because there is
no other way we can be.

For Matt and Anis.
I offer prayers and hope.
Your child will come out of this as the sun.