I stopped performing urgency

and I wasn't left behind

I thought I was behind

but I wasn’t.



I was learning to stay without leaving myself behind.



I stopped reaching and started staying with the parts of myself that were already there.



I didn’t run,

scan,

project

forward think.



I was listening.


to myself,

my breath,

and to my body



To all the quiet places.


 

I stopped performing urgency

and I wasn’t left behind.



Everything that stayed with me was already mine