Today, I am not walking or running,
I am pausing and stopping.
I want to purposefully slow,
and believe I have nowhere to go.

Want to observe and absorb,
feel all that makes my heart throb.
remember the paths walked,
and all that we talked.

Relive moments from memory,
and read old pages of an old diary.

Goals-one and all,
achievements-big and small,
keeps the fire burning,
and the wheels churning.

But, moving from one to the next thing,
Is not to my liking of being.
In this race for the present,
and a focus on the future,

I don’t want to forget the times gone by,
Going back memory lane is my humble try.
Life passes by too fast,
Let me stop today to savor the past.

• emotional health
• Feelings
• gratitude
• life and its ways
• mental health
• poems