Little by little,
I stopped believing
in the stories
of the mind
until one day
I turned around
and searched for
that place in me
where I used
to struggle against
my own self —
where I could be
knocked off-center
by any outside force —
that place that sent me
searching desperately
time and time again
for another someone
or another something
to address
our separateness
and fill the emptiness.
But on this day,
I realized I had
set it all down
in exchange for
the one continuous,
never-ending
prayer of my heart.
Laurie's Notes 