It was a miracle (a poem)

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. Chinese proverb

It began
at the bottom of a hill
on a road
winding upwards.

It began
as so many stories do
with a phrase
opening the door
to possibility
winding forwards.

It began
in that place
where dreams
fall like rain
pounding
the road
winding
somewhere
ahead
somewhere
into that place
where they would know
happiness
joy
love
the things
they'd always dreamed of
but were too busy
being
somewhere else
to see
they were already there
on that road
winding upwards.

It was
a miracle
they even saw
the point
where their lives
intersected
like stars
crossing
falling
tumbling
from the sky
into their eyes
gazing
into the distance
far away from
that place
where their hearts
met
on the road
winding upwards.

It was a miracle
and the road
kept winding
and they kept
falling
in Love.

This is not at all what I had intended to write today, and yet it happened.

Like love.

Sometimes, we don't expect it to be in that place where we are looking and there it is.

Everywhere, every day, miracles unfold in us, around us, about us.

Every day, everywhere we meet miracles on the road, winding upwards.

May your day be a day of seeing the miracles all around you.

the poem... it is inspired by my friend Maureen at Writing without Paper who always turns up with miracles of humans being all they're meant to be and poetry that compels me to find that place within me where I am, and always have been, all I'm meant to be.

It is prompted by a poetry prompt (as Maureen writes...) for Carry on Tuesday, which each week provides a famous quotation or the opening lines of a book, song, or poem that participants are to use wholly or partly in an original poem or prose piece.

The prompt for Tuesday, August 3, comes from the opening line of Christina Georgina Rossetti's poem "Uphill": Does the road wind uphill all the way? The complete poem is here.
To read other Carry on Tuesday contributors' poems or prose for Prompt #64, go here.