Walking Blessing - Jan Richardson

 That each step

may be a shedding.

That you will  let yourself

become lost,

That when it looks like

you are going backwards,

you may be making progress.

That progress is not the goal anyway,

but presence

to the feel of the path on your skin,

the way it reshapes you

in each place it makes contact,

to the way you cannot see it

until the moment you have stepped out.