Calling Ourselves Home

How do we continue to learn from each season of our lives? Award-winning author and poet Kaitlin Curtice offers us wisdom for healing our relationships with reality, our Creator, and ourselves in this emotional untitled poem, originally published in “Oneing: Falling Upward.” 

Don’t forget,

my love,  

to live.  

Don’t forget  

to bury

your toes in sand  

and leave the car keys  

and laugh at oddities.  

Don’t forget to marvel

and feel despair,  

to sense danger  

and run from it.  

Don’t forget

to take chances,  

to climb mountains  

that no one believed

you could climb.  

Don’t forget  

to love yourself,  

all of you,  

from every season  

and every place,  

because you never know when they will come knocking for  

a cup of coffee  

and an overdue hug.  

Don’t forget

that you are alive  

right now  

until you won’t be, 

and even then,  

don’t forget

how beautiful  

it was to  

call yourself Home.