In the Mundane Lane
Should you sometime break from the day to day,
The run around, doing, doing, doing,
To look around, a simple surprise might fill your soul with joy.
What do you see?
A stone, a plant, a bird, may stop you in your rush,
Cause you to step on your brakes for one eternal moment.
Perhaps, since you have important things to do, you ask
Does this matter? Why am I stopping?
And realize that there may be no reason but…
It is your life, your world, saying be, be, be.
Sit still, feel awe in the simple, and simply being.
Make peace with the mundane.
You will resume to more doing, of course.
Yet recall this gift of stopping, sitting, seeing,
When next you’re stopped and feel wonder.
Copyright ©
Keith Warren
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