Time to pause and reflect on who we are and what we are becoming through the lens of a poem because seeing differently grows a new story.

Tracing the emerging threads of humanity that were evident in the poetic pauses for peace in the last episode, I continued to muse and wrote a new poem:

AM I READY TO BE HUMAN?
Am I ready to be human,  to embrace my multitudesand know that we are one,choosing to be fully presentbelonging to this time and place alone?
Am I ready to enrolin the school of interdependency,letting go of my need to control,to get it right, or push emotions asidefor fear that they will undo me?
Am I ready to be fully alive,paying attention to strong rootsthat nourish and sustain,and keep me supplein drought and storm?
Am I ready to live this season,not deferring its entry or wishing it away,open to the curiosity of possibilities,the imagination of lifeand the courage of hope?
Am I ready to be humanto play the part that only I can playwith humility, grace and joy,alongside you as we walk togetherin this messy and glorious world?
Are we ready to be more human?

You can find the original here: Are we ready to be human?

Elizabeth Oldfield’s podcast is The Sacred, and her new book is Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times, Hodder & Stoughton, 2024

Thanks for listening

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

LINKS

Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.