"I'm But a Creature Experiencing": a learning poem

Whatever my experience is, I get to just be in it! ...

Whatever my experience is,
I get to just be in it!

    I don’t have to mold it to my control,
    correct, or justify it.

        If I’m too tired to do the dishes—don’t.
        If the gnats get worse, so be it.

            My. Feelings. Matter.

Just navigate each moment 
through its facts as they arrive—

    watch, and feel, and treat myself well.
    I'm not the controller of life:

        I’m but a creature experiencing,
        in this moment, alive.

            My. Feelings. Matter.

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