Rise from the prayer mat
Leave the cold church stones to their obstinate disgust
Forgo the supplications
Dispense with the incense and the miserly begging bowl
Let the flowers remain uncut in the fields
And breathe
You are good enough


Stand solitary and unguarded in the bruised velvet night
Drenched in shadow
And looking up at the splendour
Allow the stars to burn their cosmic recipes into your tired sedated soul
Then smash your heart’s fragile casing and watch its gleaming centre hemorrhage all over the rest of your life
And breathe
You are good enough



Make music on a gentle day
And on those swamped by tempests add the passion
Dance without once looking at your feet
Grow careless with happiness
Grow carefree with pain
Swim naked
Burn the masks
And breathe
You are good enough

Take risks without thinking
Love ardently where love falls
Be it seconds or epochs
Be it willing or wrenched
Erupt with laughter when they taunt you
Be your power
And breathe
You are good enough




Shatter the mottled looking glass
And adorn yourself in comfort
As furtive fractious glances crave your happy easy toes
Demand of none complete devotion
Destroy the ticking timepiece
Embrace mortality with welcome
And breathe
You are good enough

(mish 2017)