Stillness Within Beauty 08/12/2021

Feeling insecure
Feeling unsure
How do I process
Conflicting feelings
Pulling me backwards
To my sleeping self?

Grateful for knowing
Sensing the awareness
Of this movement
Not aligned
With my heart.

The pull is strong
Back to the familiar
Beliefs and perceptions
Ego wants
To control again
And it’s difficult to resist.

Close my eyes
Focus on my breath
Tis the only way
To break this
Smothering connection.

A sense of knowing
And calmness enters
Softly hearing
Comforting words
Just a little bit of love
Is needed
To find strength
Within the core.

Beauty and peace
Is all that is needed
To stay connected
With life itself
No matter what arises
Inside our thoughts.

~Maggie Spaulding
Poem Author