PAD 4 - Beginning

• Write a beginning poem. And, of course, when something begins, it often signals something else ending. Soooo, the other prompt is to…
• Write an ending poem. Poem about something ending.

What one begins anew often

is this thing of being one's self

Waking up to say

Today - I won't obfuscate

I won't shuffle, delay

As if one could BE

better.  In the beginning

you feel different,

the master of the sounds you hear, the trainer

of your pacing thoughts.

Perhaps it is possible

to change, by simply

attending, intending, 

watching the whole room

beginning again

now with will

and a small flourish

- snapping a whip 

so you will rise up

and  - in the present now - yourself 

your actual self

be.