Be Calm

You have traveled too fast over false ground;

Now your soul has come to take you back.

Take refuge in your senses, open up

To all the small miracles you rushed through.

Become inclined to watch the way of rain

When it falls slow and free.

Imitate the habit of twilight,

Taking time to open the well of color

That fostered the brightness of day.

Draw alongside the silence of stone

Until its calmness can claim you.”

                                            John O'Donohue

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I have been taught

My whole life

That my worth is dependent upon what I do

And so I have worked

Hard

To produce

To accomplish

To do the right thing

That I might be valued

Accepted

Admired

Perhaps, even, loved

Can’t say that it worked….

But now I am older

And after years of being

A human doing

Perhaps

Perhaps

Perhaps

It is time

To be a human being

To slow down