Stepping on the scale
I’m amazed at what I’ve lost

In addition to
more than a few pounds

There is disbelief
at how I have changed

since I first
let myself look down

at those numbers
tracking me and my digital thought

Surprising me with
a measure of my knowledge

of how pants stopped fitting
how I had to cut down a belt to make it work

how I felt less heavy
on the earth

Though I can’t excuse
myself from this

I am surprised by
the lift granted by the numbers

thus confirmed by
modern science

although I knew it
long before

And though I know
it means little to the world

that I tread less heavily
upon it

still I will be lifted
by the revelation

for now and until
something comes to set me back

as it
always does

I will walk lighter
upon the shocked planet

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
onward,
T