V. H. King's Ink

Deck: Dust 2 Onyx Tarot || Top: The Tower; (The Moon) || Bottom: (7 of Coins); (Ace of Gourds); (2 of Blades)

everything comes crashing
down and you gotta sit a minute
blinking and coughing the dust out
your eyes your lungs your mouth.
eventually the pins and needles

come prickling you back to your feet. see
the damage, the mountains you climbed
all leveled. those ladders, all neatly stacked
a monumental roadmap to the next achievement—
all gone now, a pile of bent rungs and ripped
tongues that will get you nowhere. so take

the push-broom; it’s time to clear out. heave
with your shoulders; put your back into it
and watch your step—because that’s what you’re
taking right now, getting down to the fertile
ground beneath your feet. there are opportunities
waiting for you, but first you need to prepare
yourself to meet them. rise up, then, and give

your spirit, your body, your heart, the room you
need to feel the full flare and failure of everything
happening at once. listen to the life cycle spawned
and spurned in a matter of hours and know when
the next challenge comes, you’ll have firm footing.