Not Standing Still

Photo: CA Hawthorne

Fretting, worrying,
she'd known it all,
tears of helplessness
to make her feel small.

When her awakening came
it was finding that trying
quieted the fearfulness,
ended the crying.

Not trying to try,
but trying to do,
for in the striving
did she become someone new.

Maybe it was true
that in not standing still
she was making life happen,
she was wielding free will.

©December 2022
Christina Anne Hawthorne

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