Thank You For The Chair

inside my soul

and its hard, sturdy

invitation to sit with

my own problems 

instead of running away 

into a wide open horizon 

of busy, swirling things 

that are always dazzling,

important, and endlessly

urgent.

Thank you for the simple

elegance of uncomfortable

stillness that stilts up space

for the difficult listening

that is necessary to grow

stronger and taller in matters

of good sense and humanity.

Roaming is in my bones,

but there's something more

reclining at the core.