Here’s to people
Who take big leaps of change
By choice
Who shake things up
Willingly
On a regular basis
Because it’s usually
Someone else’s changes
That make me change
Someone else’s decision
To leave a job
That changes the nature
Of my job
Someone else’s decision
To relocate
That turns my social circle
Inside out
I do not change
By choice
I cling
To each stage of life
Tightly
I hold on for dear life
Always feeling lucky
To have made it
To that space
Rather than considering that
Anything I have in life
Might be due
At least in part
To my own
Good decisions
Anywhere I am in life
Might be the result
Of luck
But also effort
Might be meant as
A stepping stone
Along the path
To another
Destination
Rather than
A place
I should
Consider home
Hard not to view
Every place
I find myself
As a life boat
I was just lucky
To come across
Everything I have
As something
That will soon
Be taken from me
If I’m not careful
It’s not relaxing
This way of thinking
Always feeling
Like I’m just one step ahead
Of a very steep fall
Typically reacting to change
Rather than initiating it
Rarely leaping
But finding myself
In free fall
Whenever others in my life
Do