You're stuck at home ...

You’re stuck at home,
stuck in your skin,
stuck in your bones.

One-on-one with your inner scaffolding,
watching the world’s maelstrom unfolding.
Unable to hurry through your city’s toxicity,
you busy yourself with things of simplicity:

Children to care for, meals to prepare,
a ride to the supermarket is your heroic affair.

Sit, lay still for a moment …
Observe, get aware …
Awareness is a medicine they say,
but who’d really care?
This pill can be bitter and not easy to swallow,
but once your habits are spotted, you can choose to un-follow.

Habits to move, to think, to react.
Notice that moment where you can enact
your inner ability to sense and make choices
without worrying about all these outside voices.

Then a moment will come where you’ll find within
the support that you need, in your bones, in your skin;
where you’ll re-learn to use yourself in the gravity
to create the most simple movement of sheer clarity.

No useless hurrying, but a quiet unknown
that holds your true self, in your skin and your bones.
And with that simple quietness you’ll go and create
A much better world, one you don’t want to escape.

 (c) Alina Komnatnaya 2020

Inspired by the work of Dr. Sarah Sarkis, teaching of Jeff Haller and all many others of my Feldenkrais teachers.