What a curtain in the wind can teach you – Poem by Ali Grimshaw

~ Ali Grimshaw 


"All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets in your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?"
- Anthony Horowitz 


To be a curtain in the breeze.
Joining the flow of air
rising, falling,
lifting, lowering
gathering, and letting go.

I will be a curtain
hate will not inhabit my heart. I will not hold it.
Instead it will travel like airflow. 

(I expect to falter, I am only human after all. Yet, I continue to observe all that can teach me how to keep my heart soft.)

Like the curtain welcomes all that arrives,
letting it pass through 
while remaining light. 
© Ali Grimshaw 2026

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