stillness,
our greatest challenge:
to stop ourselves,
allowing calm silence
to wash our souls;
we don't know how to stop,
we fear falling behind
if we give up the breakneck pace,
though this continuous racing
threatens to send us spiraling
to our own destruction;
we hunger for stillness -
it frightens us -
we're desperate for silence -
it shakes our nerve -
we think life has taught us
if we are not moving,
we're falling behind;
we don't understand:
this constant movement
is just a spinning of wheels,
getting us nowhere
