Your Presence

If within, you would like to be seeing

You must first create time – to allow just being

Release from constant doing – may find, is quite freeing

Could discover from yourself - you’ve been fleeing

Busy equals success - often the attitude

Popular is self-exile - to servitude

Lost in the frenzy any semblance of gratitude

Slow down & breath – seek the answers of solitude

We were all created with gifts quite unique

Still many are eluded by the happiness they seek

Reconnect with yourself – “hear” heart speak

Does what you’re doing bring you joy – your life critique!

You might say I have plans for “someday”

Past and future the moment do betray

Broken heart can result from delay

Like bringing a bag lunch to a buffet

Easy to forget we all have our own druthers

Deeply examined our choices - influenced by others

We can only be second rate on the path of another’s

Doing so, our soul - ultimately smothers

By soul – seeking one can know true autonomy

Instead of primary concern – the hierarchy of consumer economy

A life based on more, competition, and faster

Is unbalanced - heading for potential disaster

Our life is but an instant - over quite swift

To allow throughout, to unconsciously drift

Never too late for the focus to shift

Now’s the time slow down - & notice your gift