Words in Motion- Feature Poem of the Day for National Poetry Month

Stillness

Here, right here…

The river breathes with everything we are,

Where tears and dark secrets are told freely and

Kept within its vault of eternal silence.

            Each passage of time is golden

            And every moment is divine.

Here, right here…

My will is planted upon the stillness

Of my solitude.

The air is crisp and honestly benign,

Where my reflection and the river

Quietly entwine.

            The stars cannot move me.

Here, I am awake…

Like a crow preparing its sacred

Prayers to the sun, to inherit the

Warmth of the seas, upon its fragile

Knees, before the grim cold days shall come,

            The light will guide me.

It matters not where I am.

In this equation of space- amidst the

Trees, at the edge of the river, beside a

Cliff or amongst the lazy nocturne haze…

Like each of us that exist and breathe,

            I am one under the sun.

Here, right here…

Each passage of my time is golden and

Every moment is divine.

The stars cannot move me. I am awake

And the light shall guide me. I am one

Under the sun.

Life’s battle is won.

Breathe. Live.

Reinalie Jorolan