Finding Balance 8/23/2022

Being anxious
Being uncomfortable
Feeling the weight
Of emotions
From this moment
On my shoulders.

Don’t want to be wrong
Afraid to make mistakes
Clinging too tightly
To what
My human mind thinks
And wants.

Breathing deeply
Feeling grounded
Letting go in the moment
As the Soulful Self
Begins to surface
While the power of love
Embraces me as a hug.

Wanting to help too much
Excessive caring
Strangling the goodness
From my actions
Making it more about me
And the expectations
I perceive should happen.

Finding balance
Between pushing and pulling
In the emotional self
Is the key
To know the right amount
Of love and caring
We should give to another
And to ourselves.

Maggie Spaulding
Poem Author