you may have chosen to go there
you may have wandered there on accident
you may have been pushed there by something horrible
you may have been led there by something wonderful
first there, it is all at once terrifying and
all at once invigorating
it is all at once filled with hope and
all at once filled with hopelessness
but however you got there
and whatever it felt like
you find yourself unable to leave
so you begin to make your home there
not because it all makes sense
and not because you know what to do
and not because you’ve been here before
but because you can’t imagine being anywhere else
but here.
and once you decide that you are willing to live there
you find others who moved in long ago
because they chose to go there
because they were wandered there
because they were pushed there
because they were led there
and they too, soon learned, they could not leave
so you join with them
and with the others
and begin to learn what it really means
to live there
to live here
in the margins.
djordan
Managua, Nicaragua
most hopeful 