Maybe we said something we didn’t mean.

Or shared too much.

Maybe someone said something hurtful

or unloaded their baggage

onto us.

Maybe something happened

that shakes us to the core.

But whatever the cause, sometimes

we’re tipped upside down, turned inside out.

Sometimes we feel so small,

so vulnerable,

every thread of ourselves feels ready

to snap.

That is a good time to get close

to the fine details of life.

So close

that we see

that the small

is big and wonder-filled.

So close

that we feel ourselves looking inside

tiny worlds within worlds

So close that we come to realize

we are both small and big

like everything else on this planet.

This universe.

We are not alone in this.

But maybe most of all,

we need to remember

whole worlds of small

hold on.