What if? - Jayne Gumpel

[Lawrence Robinson]

What if?

There is a moment____________
before the shift,
before the answer,
where everything known
gives way to something
more spacious.
Not clarity,
but a trembling openness
that asks only
for your attention.
We do not heal
by rushing toward insight.
We heal
by allowing ourselves
to stand still
long enough
for the ground to rearrange itself beneath us.
Serotonin rises,
dopamine fires-
the body takes its first breath
without the story.
We call it altered.
But what if this is the natural state,
and everything else
is the mask?
Disassociation,
they say- - - -
but I hear something more tender:
a loosening
of the grip
on what we thought we had to be.
A space
not of forgetting,
but of remembering
what it feels like
to question
without fear.
The therapy,
the molecule,
the touch of another’s listening…..
these are only invitations.
The true work
begins
when we say yes
to the mystery
that lives inside not-knowing.
When we speak aloud
the quiet truths
that tremble at the edges
of certainty.
This is the apprenticeship:
to stay present
in the presence
of possibility.
To prepare the future
not with answers,
but with a tone of welcome.
To let the self
we are becoming
arrive
one breath at a time.
And in that moment
when the world no longer demands
you be anything
but fully awake
you find the courage
to be changed
by your own willingness
to remain.


	- Jayne Gumpel
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