Kids playing soccer in the park

Focus power

Focus kinetic skill

Concentrate the energy

Make it do your will

Let it return, so it can fulfill

that sense of presence

that brings you joy

though you don’t name it

nor consciously employ the game as therapy

For you it’s fun

But there is more to it

for in your sending forth

and trapping back

you have created some kind of spirit track

The vectors emanate from where you run

You and the ball and field becoming one

magically connected to your team

So suddenly I understand

This isn’t pointless playing with a ball

This is the growing practice of command:

By owning this part of your world

you own it all.

©Wendy Mulhern

June 28, 2012