Blink

Each blink requires a prayer - that the world before your eyes closed will be the same as the world when they open again. And there is no reason that this should be true! Of course we think that there is nothing that will change, that could possibly change, in the blink of an eye. But how much blind faith must we take with each blink that the world we perceive at that moment will choose itself to remain. That as a blink in a smile, a laugh, an embrace, you will not disappear. That in reading an acceptance letter, or seeing the acceptance of your friends, of your family, of your lover, the word "no" will not slip itself before your hopes and dreams. The safe world you see is not safe, the unconditional love before you is not unconditional, and the life you see yourself living is not a life lived. In a blink, you may be killed and your friends may abandon you so I pray. I pray that you keep your eyes open, for this life is too short close your eyes, even for a blink.