It is Enough (A Haibun)

Today’s Focail do a Chara

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1 min readJan 12, 2018

I can’t solve every-
one’s problems. I am enough.
People will suffer

and die, hunger, poverty, wars will wage, bodies fail, struggles abound, need need need. My shoulders cannot hold all the cares in my world.

Demanding barking
dog. I am enough. Even
if all the greed in

the world gave way to generosity, compassion, justice, the doomsday clock frozen,

I am enough. time
would still march to her own beat,
timeless clock ticking,

closer, closer, closer, to the reckoning. I am enough. I feel like mile 20 of a marathon, uphill, in a hailstorm. this new chapter —

I am afraid to
turn the page. I am enough.
Right here now. enough.

Originally published at christinesdavisphd.blogspot.com on January 12, 2018.