poetry: mindfulness

learning to be truly aware in the tiny things. i spent 15 or 20 minutes being "mindful" in this experience, and then wrote about it...

mindfulness

i chose what was near me

a christmas gift

dark chocolate-covered edamame

and drank in all the texture

and color and sound of movement

babbling like a brook

as my hand explored their depth

the richness of something

never-before-head-of

surprised me as i tasted

so many layers

of melting and breaking

a deformed one at first bothered me

until i saw its shape
then i knew: it was a gift