One Step

Morning breaking through the clouds of my strangest dreams,
The waking hours sifting through images of what it seems.
The time ticking in the clock is faster than my internal one,
And can’t understand the rush to be there and then… gone!

Hear the beats of the radio music, and out of the machinery,
With so much noise can’t find anything good in the scenery.
More concrete around reaches within and the heart hardens:
Instead of flourishing, I’m recoiling with life’s cadence.

Is this what I want? Is this what I’ve been striving for?
Or have I lost my way and can’t find my own north?
Need to quiet the merging noise and stop it all now.
Only to my own heart’s beat is worth to dance and fall.

Seems impossible sometimes to just move ahead your feet,
To make the turn that will take you above the defeat.
But all it takes to start the journey is one step, then another,
That will take you closer to your soul, sister, and brother.

KBS, February 2009.