What my Body is Telling Me

Part One

I need to move into a larger room,

imagine more possibilities, less limitations.

I can be more generous to myself when I fail.

Yes, my crabby genes may exist,

but my better choices breathe life

into dormant genes that combat depression,

help healing.

I am full of joy in these old bones,

I am so blessed and grateful.

Fresh every morning I go to the larger room…

just to breathe, love, listen, become all I am.

Physical, mental, emotional bodies

dance around me as I center.

The dream world challenges me,

grinds my hardened thoughts,

exposes my self-imposed prisons.

Inez Taylor, Washington resident, is a poet who delves into topics of all kinds.

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