Windows and doors

Are metaphors—

But also real

Gateways.

So: are Yours?How open to change?

How closed in fear?

Do you throw them wide

When a friend

Comes near?You can bar the way

And lock out

All storms—

But have you

Barred Chance in all

Its forms?Are your windows sealed

To stop the rain

So tightly that

No light can gainEntry anymore?

Is your door of steel

Holding off

New joys

For fear you’d feel?Throw open the sash!

Swing wide the door!

Adventure is what

This life is for.