I Choose

I have willed to go forward

and have not gone beyond the borders 

of my grace

Saniya Salih

I am of an age where people seem to stop going forward

I decline the offer to sit still

To speak of my world in memories

I also decline the offer to rush through each moment 

As though it were going to melt like ice cream on a summer day

For the hours that are consumed by idleness

hold no more grace

than those that are tossed aside in haste

Grace abides in neither

                                                                and grace is what I choose

and that's poetiquejustis

She is clothed with strength and dignity,
    and she laughs without fear of the future.

Proverbs 31:25