Stir The Pot 1/25/2023

Stirring the pot
Adding favorite
Ingredients
Taking sips
To taste the creation
Is all about
Perception and
Satisfaction.

We each have
Different tastes
And different perceptions
Yet we are similar
In many ways.

Within a variety of choices
Offered to us
We often choose
What others impress on us
Instead of following
Or own hearts.

So how do we break away
From feeling limited
By other’s tastes
And choices for us?

Look inside
The heart
In reflective
And mindful ways
To reveal the kind
And compassionate
Version of yourself.

Allow this heartfelt version
To guide you out
Of the confinements
And the limitations
While expressing gratitude
For the changes
Occurring inside
And out.

Appreciation is needed
Which allows the mind
To accept
And experience life
With different ingredients
That we stir together
All the time.

Maggie Spaulding
Poem Author