Meanwhile

She Will Not Be Quiet: A (mostly unedited) daily writing practice

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Meanwhile

Is there no end to this discontent?

No end to the wanting 
that holds us hostage, 
holds us away from here, 
from this self, from the life 
we think we want. 

And then, we get the thing and realize, that no—
it’s that thing, that thing over there 
that we really want need have to have. And
on and on it goes. How many moments
have we missed in pursuit of shinier things?

Meanwhile, the days tick slowly, quickly by. 

We can go our whole lives like this—
wanting getting not wanting. Meanwhile
the sweet sun sets again, the daffodil blooms 
and dies, the close of another day, 
the turn of another page, remind us 
that it all ends. It all ends. Maybe 

all we really really need
is to pause long enough to breathe in 
the scent of sadness, breathe in 
the dig of discontent, make friends
with whatever is here, 
and then not here—

breathe in the promise of this new, 
pouring-with-sunshine day—
let it fill us so full, we walk 
around spilling little splashes 
of sunlight everywhere.

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