everything inside me says
look forward, look ahead, look up
look before you leap
but everyone outside me agrees
look down, look around
take a leap with both eyes open
this moment, here and now, is all you need
so i will try
to stay in the moment
to lose myself in the moment
not to look for myself in the future
not to analyze or over-think
if i can only
live each moment fully
grab on with both hands
without holding anyone down
or holding myself back
it's been forever
a moment
a million years
an instant
a lifetime
a heartbeat
that i've been waiting
for what, exactly? i don't know
has it happened already and i missed it?
a moment, a chance, lost forever in my past?
or is it yet to come,
a moment still awaiting me
shining with potential?
i'm not who i was
so i don't have to act
as i did in the past
"if you always do what you've always done
you'll always get what you've always gotten"
what i did - what i've always done -
got me lost and lonely
so i will try
to do something new
and not worry about what
i might or might not get
i'll just hold on to the moment
a momentous step