Tuesday 5 January 2021

Avast 2021!

Resolution


Make no resolutions.
Do not even make the resolution 
to make no resolutions.

Step into each minute wet, naked, newborn
stripped of expectation
empty of judgement.

Place a wobbling foot forward
and simply explore
  the weight of your body
on that foot
in that moment
among this world.


Then, once the wind and light
have woven this world
about your existence,

have made a you-shaped space
in which to be,
spare a prayer for when 

you’ll not be here; for all the other 
hearts that did beat,
but then became thin air.

Breathe in. Let time slide through you 
like a wind through a wood.
Feel it. Be tree and breeze.

Sway till you still. And then, 
only then,
take another step.
                                                                            BS 1 January 2016