Running helps me remember,
Processing with every foot step on the hard pavement,
Learning from my memories,
Understanding how to get where I need to in life, 
One step forward at a time.

The morning rain cleanses the path I run,
While this path I run is paved, 
The path in life is not always that clear.

Mile 1
A million thoughts clutter my brain,
Endless to do list,
A grant proposal to be finished,
A phone call to make,
A schedule to create,
I don’t have time to run with a million things to get done.

Footsteps on the hard pavement
Thoughts begin to dissipate 

Mile 2
Thoughts more focused
I got a date tonight, what to wear?
Focus on breath, breathe
Let the to do list go,
Everything will be there when you get back
This is my time for me,
Give to me so I can give to others,
Puddle ahead, run, run, leap

Footsteps on the hard pavement
Thoughts begin to dissipate 


Mile 3
Thoughts disappear, 
Music inspiring me to run,
Breath is natural,
Grass is green from all the rain,
I remember a rainstorm in a dream,
A flooded riverbed, cascading dreams.

Footsteps on the hard pavement
Thoughts begin to dissipate 
 Mile 4
Head is clear, body and breath connect
I am alive with love, joy, and my path
Mile after mile,
Body and breath connect with the footsteps on the hard pavement
Thoughts dissipate bringing clarity.

The colors blending together in an impressionist painting,
The jasmine blooming under the midnight sky,
Beautiful is the way I feel when you kiss me.

Fingers of interlacing passion, tacitly touching,
Eyes so flawless like the morning sky,
Sleeping slumber so still and perfect
The beauty is that moment.




The laughter of a lifelong friend,
Sitting in silence and listening to every word spoken,
Beautiful is old fashion connection validated with a smile.

Sunlight bouncing off the cream city bricks creating shadows that tell a story,
A heart, just like a flower, opening up when the love that is this light shines.
Beauty is visceral,
Beauty is captured,
 Beauty is this moment.