Centered

Poem © 2013 by Joyce Mason
All Rights Reserved

Weight balanced

through my core

anchored to the Earth

I sit tall

 and solid 

still as a redwood

in a cemetery

fine-tuned to

the most subtle nuances

of every noise and sensation

all around me.

A stranger to this place

at the same time

so familiar

a touchstone of bedrock

inside me

where sights and sounds

breeze by my senses

in slow motion

a place where observer mode

is the rule

and any kind of upset

is someone else’s:

the exception.

Like the early stages

of falling in love

the honeymoon

is over too soon

but I plan to do

everything I can

to keep my romance

with rootedness

alive

until the final uprooting

where Earth yields to Air

and I wrap myself

in the ultimate

Cloak of Invisibility.

~.~.~

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