Here within the goodness of the day

I am filled with the results of my past.
and the richness of everything 
that has flowed into me up until now 
and yet today I will leave that behind me 
and go forward into a new life supported by my past
informed by it, but not ruled by it.

Instead, I will report to the authority of being 
and my body here as it is now.
I will form a relationship with my sensation of myself.
And I will remember to perceive through my sensation, not my thinking.
I will put that first.