Your Are Not Your Body, Nor Your Pain

We are not just our pain,
or even the body that holds it.
We are more.
This body is a vessel.
This pain, a chapter,
not the whole book.

Out on the trail, it's clearer,
we are the sky, the wind.
We are the fireweed
blooming after burn.
We are life, still moving,
even when we're hurting.

So when you forget -
step outside.
Breathe in the wild air,
feel your own pulse.
Synch with the world around you.

Let the forest remind you,
you are not your limits.
You are the life that moves them.

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