Strange

There comes the strangest moment in your life,
when everything you thought before breaks free—
what you relied upon as ground-rule and as rite
looks upside down from how it used to be.

Skin’s gone pale, your brain is shedding cells;
you question every tenet you set down;
obedient thoughts have turned to infidels
and every verb desires to be a noun.

                             * * *
How many people thought you’d
never change?
But here you have. It’s beautiful. It’s strange.

            ~ Kate Light