prompt 13 hour 13<\/p>\n
just walking<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
my body is soft –<\/p>\n
has always preferred reading to running<\/p>\n
writing to nearly anything else<\/p>\n
but walking calls me<\/p>\n
frequently to many spaces where<\/p>\n
rivers run faster than I ever could on bended knee<\/p>\n
in worship to the body that sustains me<\/p>\n
and the body that built a fortress of fat around me<\/p>\n
to protect me before I could protect myself.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If I wanted to move, I could.<\/p>\n
I was just trained to be still \u2013<\/p>\n
straining muscles snapping with the longing to run<\/p>\n
with muscles so taut as to hum<\/p>\n
against the silence of my body.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I wanted so desperately to be a dancer \u2013<\/p>\n
when I didn\u2019t want to run away \u2013<\/p>\n
loving that movement of the body<\/p>\n
I secretly wished away.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
These days I walk.<\/p>\n
I walk to the places that call me<\/p>\n
to listen to rivers<\/p>\n
running faster that I ever could \u2013<\/p>\n
dancing over stones<\/p>\n
in songs of love to my still feet<\/p>\n
still wishing to do more<\/p>\n
than just walking.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u00a9 r. l. elke<\/p>\n
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