What if,
you rarely read fiction
didn’t ever pay much attention to the
best seller list
preferred a good deep dive
into biography
or learning something
new
what if you didn’t much do
netflix
or really even which of those buttons to push
didn’t quite understand the
binge part
of
anything
much preferred a good masterpiece
theatre
or hockey game
even when, this left you little fodder
for small talk
what if you put your trust
in learning and research, and people
much
smarter than you
and your faith in love
and
simple kindness
what if you made the decision
to not eat anything
that had been killed
for you
and felt a peace in the deepest part
of your being, as the most
natural thing,
no real decisions required
not a case for judgement of anyone else
just an innate sense of
kindness
for yourself
what if you learned to say no
without explanation
put a period at the end
and felt perfectly ok with that
left behind the shoulds
and the musts
and the why doesn’t she…
what if you filled yourself up so full
of love
that even on the bad-ish days
bits of bright things
couldn’t help
spilling
out
like little gold stars
what if you followed the sun
but admired the clouds
as was the natural flow of
things
that are
felt
deeply the world
and talked often to yourself
or the birds
what if you admired most
those that
brought their courage
to the stepping-over-anyways
even if
the hurtles break
and what then if you showed up
just as yourself
no self promoting picture roll required
just you
each
time
abnormally speaking… ♥