When I get caught up in the swirling momentum of my life Buried by busyness Overcome by obligation Seduced by the mad compulsion to cross off as many things on my to-do list as possible I find myself forgetting my most essential nature And losing track of a most basic truth That I am a being of light Spirit made manifest through blood and bone Beauty dancing on two legs When this shocking realization Makes itself known Again for the thousandth t I stop … if only for as long as it takes To feel the miracle of the silky smoothness of my breath While putting my hand to my cheek Astonished that I am even here at all And shyly taking a moment to look at myself in the closest mirror I find myself stunned into wonderment At the galaxy of love that is always there Waiting for me to remember who I really am Just behind my eyes