The Daily Boost #403

What's your hurry?

Photo by Yoksel 🌿 Zok on Unsplash

STILL POINT
Max Reif

Leaving home
for work
each day

I hear the trees
say “What’s your hurry?”
Rooted, they
don’t understand

how in my world
we have to rush
to keep in step.

I haven’t even time
to stop and tell them
how on weekends, too,
schedules wait
like nets.

It’s only on a sick day
when I have to venture out
to pick up medicine

that I understand the trees,
there in all their fullness
in a world unpatterned

full of moments,
full of spaces,
every space
a choice.

This day
has not
been turned yet
on the lathe

this day
lies open, light
and shadow. Breath
fills the body easily.

I step
into a world
waiting like
a quiet lover.

(My thanks to Max Reif, via Your Daily Poem.)

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