further

Sometimes you are asked

To step outside of yourself

And become something greater than you are

Or what you perceive yourself to be

The sum of your parts suddenly

Adding up to more than

What you started out with

That morning

When you left your house

And you were still the same then

But you are different now

Reaching and breaking

All those rules that

You had so carefully

Constructed for yourself

See how life bends and

You’ve become

The sum greater than the whole

The earth greater than the sun

The sun greater than the sky and

The sky a never-ending possibility of further