WRITE 28 DAYS: MEDITATION RESPONSES – DAY 8: Walking Meditation

I’m participating in Sharon Salzberg’s 28-Day Real Happiness Meditation Challenge again this year, and my plan for this blog series is to write a poem or reflection on each day’s practice. You can find all the responses on the landing page.

Migration

I'm an object in motion, 
set in motion, 
remaining in motion, 
inexorably, 
walking as long 
as there's something to walk on, 
even if not, 

I think I'm walking 
just thinking about walking, 
lifting foot, 
moving foot, 
placing foot, 
passing by, 
generating breeze, 
leaving traces, 
glancing side to side, 
the same rolling motion, 

unstoppable, 
seeing and registering, 
seen and registered, 
moving on, 
undisturbed, 
lifting foot, 
placing foot, 
as self-contained 
as a dream.

I'm awake, moving through 
what's moving through me, 
a collateral migration 
from home to home to home.