What Is Essential?

process over goal
enhanced through time but
self sufficient to the moment
and can always be realized now
expansive
experience, not description

requires a degree of mindfulness
a condition of freedom
in this are clusters of words
birds flitting on thermal currents of intersections
centeredlightness of being
stillness letting go sovereignty
relaxation

words about state
about places
roads between destinations
time slows on the interstates
does not matterneed not be

in external pursuits, holding a quality of internal state
more than the thing or happening
the space it happens within

mindful 
cultivation
of state
less derailed
by circumstance
recenters
more quickly

still need
daily reminders though
not to mistake
means for ends