If you could be soft in what you are. In what you’ve felt in the world.
If you could release, just for a moment, how he held you, or how the kids should have come home.
If you just put down the can of paint. Listen.
All along you’ve been waiting. A couple long sighs, a piece of the way things wave and you’re off.
Have you considered much what it is to sit on the lawn. What is under your fingers, what is under your hands. And how to live an agreeable life, and how much it takes in a night to get through what you must first get through in order to just sit here and be happy.
-Nina Alvarez
Wonderful, palpable emotion, dedicated to types A and Workaholics perhaps?
And Type Bs, too. 🙂
We seem to be programmed to think we must ‘produce’ all the time in order to have merit in life…rather sad when you think about it…enjoyed your poem on that subject.
solid thinking,
people are all different,
enjoyed your talent!