Reach For It

REACH FOR IT, BY DREW BEAM, MIXED MEDIA PRINT

REACH FOR IT

Hold
Your epic leap
Your pounce
Wait for it

Taut cables of muscles and tendons
shaking in tension
in readiness for command of release

Opportunity is always fickle
and dances around the entire venue
for its best suitor to sweep it of its feet

All the years
All the lessons
All for this moment

In the fullest draw of a bow
holding for the divine chance

Your Arrow will twitch
Target will sway
Eyes must blink
Body will ache
Aim must be true

Wait for it…
Exhale and release

Stretch beyond your greatest known length
Reach for it

—by Drew Beam