Vessel

I am going to take every sweetness,
every wander, every why, every book,
every art piece, every film, every snapshot
of every moment
as a gift,
I'm going to swallow it
down into my belly as a seed
that grows into a person
I couldn't have been otherwise.
I may not have been
a desired path
but I was a friend
and all those moments
were as honest as pure as I viewed them,
carried onwards
as welcome cargo
to newer, less steady shore.