Day 15

half way through!

Hello!

We are about half way through the month of May, can you believe it?!

How are you doing?

Are you enjoying this space of poetry? I’d love to know if it’s speaking to you, grounding you, bringing you joy.

Today’s poetry prompt is the word frustration.

In frustration

I wondered what would happen

and how—

perhaps if I build up enough

fear and worry

the future will somehow

mold to avoid my

worst nightmares.

But that’s not how the world works.

So, I think through

those worst fears one by one,

but this time

I breathe through them.

I loosen the frustration from my shoulders

and my eyebrows

and my stomach-knots,

and I loosen my grip of control

on what could be.

Instead, the future simply is,

just as I simply am,

in this moment,

alive, settled to whatever may happen,

settled to myself and how I can

do my best,

and learn to love myself well

in the process.

When I remember that

I can handle the

ebbs and flows,

mishaps,

and surprises,

I relax into myself

and into that future,

prepared for whatever may be,

frustrations and all.