Standing Still Poem by aida melesse

Standing where I am
My eyes take off into the empty distance
To the splitting path,
where no one straight road rests.
I look up and down
I look and look…

Mind to the rescue
with what it knows,
Intoxicated by fear
swirls and swirls in spheres.

It brings me back to nowhere.

A place
where I stay the course
My legs bound to the solid ground
I stand.
Infinitely hushed
By breaths of trees,
Their movements, their dance.

Sliding this way
And coming back
then the other way
I stay in the gust of my uncertainty.

The gift of now is our shield,
They serenade;
Made of a native rock
We are standing on the root
here is our home
we stand protected.

Let me stay with you
Let me join you in your dance
Let me share on the air
be part of your breath;
And poise in stillness
Where I am now
Amongst you.