Lessons learned from injury.
(1) Stillness
- By Ruth Calder Murphy -
Forced to sit in stillness,
listening to the beating of my heart,
frustration flowing away
on the tide of reality,
I learn the lessons that stillness brings -
equal and opposite
to the freedom of wings
and flight -
the freedom of grounding
and growing,
of healing and second sight…
Sitting in stillness,
the brownian motion world
a space or two removed,
away from the rigours of the race -
and my breath slowed to sleeping pace -
I learn again the lesson of sitting still
- against the natural inclination of my restless will -
of how to breathe more deeply,
allowing space to stretch and grow,
in the places only visible
from the pause of Calm and Slow…
Image: "Be Still" By Ruth Calder Murphy (2012)