ALL LIFE IS MOTION

All life is motion.
Movement, progress,
not in the progressive sense,
or the ever building, rising toward
an infinite power, but as in making movement
one step in front of another.

All life is motion.
Movement in our cells,
the very building blocks of life,
moving constantly and permanently
vibrant buzzing, spinning like a child
with a top, over and over – keep it spinning!

All life is motion.
Movement is the constant
for stasis is impossible–
it doesn’t exist–
there is only growth or decline
living and dying and motion
keeps the one and staves off the other.

All life is motion.
Movement for health
and strength and relieving tension.
A workout at the gym
or in the bedroom
is a chance to be alive
a little longer.

All life is motion.
Movement is to be alive!
Praise God when the eyes flutter awake
and the pulse quickens and
the breathing shortens
and you roll
over
to get
up.

All life is motion.
Movement is life itself.
Our bodies are made to move,
like the bodies of every living thing
the flower shooting up
leaning toward the sun
like my Audrey Jr., it’s vine wrapping
around and around and around
its growth drawn to the floor (gravity)
I can’t kill it! Its living is moving.

All life is motion.
Movement is everything.
The universe, the cosmos, the planets
in their courses, turning and spinning
chunks of dirt hurtling through space
colliding and breaking and making
or extinguishing life.

All life is motion.
Movement is GOD.
Creation and love. The inspiration
for work, our rising, the sun, moon, stars,
the setting pinks and flower purples
bees buzzing and combustion humming
and our constant hurling ourselves
at one another in desperation.

All life is motion.
Movement is.