Remembrance of Running Past

(Dec. 29, 2011)  I run now

only in my daydreams

when my mind spins freely

as it used to wheel

when running shoes were tied

and I headed out

along the forest trails.

Then as breathing settled

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Comment / By Judy Webb / Today, 8:45 a.m.

I love this poem. It just lifted my spirits, as an aging falling apart older woman who used to run, the meaning went far beyond the giving up of running. It was such a graceful way of accepting what can’t be changed.

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