November 20, 2025

dust and hope

this body does its own thing
and i am simply trying to keep up 
treat it well
stop and listen 
and still 
still 
it surprises me 

lead it like a slave most days 
and it takes everything 

within, there is a continual shift 
what moves, what breathes,
and what will break away

all the change 
outside of my own hands;
a whole life lies 
among dust and hope lands 

and somewhere in between 
is me 

- les’nspired