Flow

Life flows around us like wind and water,

Circumstance comes at us like rocks and snags.

At times caught in the current are we,

Struggling hard we try to become free.

 

As harder we struggle to become free and chose,

Focus is the very first thing we lose.

Like the Willow Tree, we should flow,

It can withstand the wind, ice, and snow.

 

But most times like the proud, mighty Oak tree,

Invincible we think that we’ll always be.

Even though the willow is rooted in sand,

Longer than the Oak tree will it stand.

 

Why Grasshopper do you fight against the flow?

You may withstand the fiercest things a time or two,

Inside the fastest gunslinger there is the fear.

A faster eye, a younger hand,

Be sure that worry is always near.

 

Learn and accept that at some point in life, you will fall,

Learn how to fall.

Learn how to fall with the least amount of damage,

Learn how to focus.

 

For it is not the fall that causes the most damage,

But our resistance against it.

Focus not on falling or defeat.

Instead focus on using the force to advantage.

 

So as in a river or storm,

There is always an eddy.

A place of calm to be found behind the obstacle.

A place of peace where we may go,

If we focus, and only we flow.

 

© 2009 Walt Hardester

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