What does it mean to come alive in the waiting? That is the question I'm asking in this poem.

The ocean is never still. It appears like glass from afar, but as you step closer, you see

the waves rolling in, how they ebb and flow and crash upon the shore, never ceasing.

Perhaps the reason you feel drawn to the water is because its movement remind you of the movement within you too.

Even in your stillness, your heart still beats. even in the waiting you are fully alive, always dreaming.

Embrace your inner current, the crash of your dreams, desires, and needs.

Know that this is a part of the journey of finding what it means to be free.

This is a poem that I wrote thinking about what does it mean to come alive in the waiting.

What does it mean to come alive in the waiting?

Because when you're waiting, you don't have that information about the future, about what's to come,

because you're waiting to see it. You're waiting to find out what's going to happen.

Maybe it feels like reaching out to grasp something that is just out of reach, or maybe it feels

like looking into the distance, but there's too much mist or fog or shadows that you can't

quite make out the full image of what lies ahead.

There are these images that they may be subtle, but they may get attached to how we think

about the future that we're waiting for or even what it feels like

to be in the present after we've been waiting. And there's so many different images that could come up.

And what I hope to do with this poem and with the things that I write. And it's also just for my personal use. I do this

even before. It comes to sharing any of the things that I'm writing about with others. It's just

recognizing how images can tell stories and the images that I'm drawn to can inform where I am in a new way. And I've learned to see that

as coming alive in the waiting. Coming alive in the waiting doesn't mean you have to have the most

energy. If you have the most energy, that's great. Please be present with all the energy. But if you're in a place where you're just like, yeah, I don't know, no, no, I don't have the energy that I used to or not right now.

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