Poem by Carmen Walsh, written 8/4/2024

What rules your life?
Human expectations,
other- or self-inflicted,
or dreams, divinely gifted?

Do you allow obstacles
to discourage your progress,
interpreting them to mean
your dreams are fruitless?

Or do you, like water,
simply adjust your route
and keep flowing, ever closer
to that expanded version of you?

Instinctually the stream knows
it will eventually reach the ocean.
Believe your dream is your destiny.
Allow the path to unfold naturally.

Imagine the dream already real;
feel how the dream come true will feel.
Fulfilled? Ecstatic? Blessed beyond compare?
Inhabit those feelings; act from there.

Allow the ocean’s power to pull you;
surrender to every twist and turn.
No deadline, no pressure to do,
nothing to prove or earn.

Be grateful for the journey so far.
Remember you’re water, wherever you are.
Whether ocean, sea, or stream,
You are always one with your dream.