Joy is Returned

Like the ever dependable cycle of life, every leaving carries within it, its return, every tear, its lifetime, every moment of confusion, its clarity, every point of darkness, a ray of light, every in-breath, an out-breath.

I'm thinking ... karma might not really be a system of reward and punishment, it may just be a constant balancing of life's poles. Not a settling of accounts, but a cycle, a process.

And therein lies the miracle.