Gentle Heart

Every checkbox beguiles you. Each day, a mountain climbed.

Feels like autopilot, your body separate from your mind.

Everything piles up until you fall distances behind.

Others juggle simultaneously, while you’re skeptically wondering, “why?”

Your reflection becomes unrecognizable. You wish you could rewind.

You put on a mask with a smile on it, wishing to slow down time

so you can learn how to juggle living while saving so many lives.

You discover a way to dismantle the lie: “you only get one life”.

To prove life can be regenerated, recreated through your eyes,

you focus on self-enlivening, cultivating quality of life.

Between your strengths and your challenges, you reconcile,

one step downwards, two steps upward, continuing to rise.