Prayer of the being-body

I come to this life now in this moment 
not with theories or ideas 
but in the truth and actuality 
of my sensation and my breathing, 
my flesh and my bones. 

Can I begin here without forms, 
without theories? 
And can I remember to be flexible enough 
within the body of this life 
to take things as they are now, 
the way that they arrive here, without…