let me be inspired by the way the wind blows
the sun shining hot on my skin as the air around
cools
chills
indicates the coming winter

but it’s not here yet
it’s not here yet

let me be inspired by the company i keep
the way i hold court in my stories
and the way others hold their own
in their own way
and absorb the information
but also absorb
the way each individual person
tells each individual
story

let me be inspired by a moment of calm
among the days of constant running
to and fro and
back and forth and
doing and doing and doing
let the sitting and lying and resting
and spending time
doing nothing
mean everything
to a poem