Only This
By
Mike Joachin
Live the actual moment.
Only this actual moment
is life.
– Thích Nhất Hạnh
Only this actual moment
is warm air on the hairs
of our neck, swaying
each like grass in a
summer breeze.
Only this actual moment
tugs at skin like a
hungry
child, craving nothing
more
than acknowledgement.
The chance to walk hand
and hand with our
thoughts,
follow the map of the
heartbeat, breathe in
what
we breathe.
What else deserves to
swallow us whole?
Other than what wakes
the senses. Gives life.
Is life. This actual
moment.
Mike Joachin currently resides in Miami, Florida,
with his wife and two young children. Poetry has always been the natural way
Mike expresses himself and tells stories. He is of Caribbean descent, where the
art of storytelling is deep-rooted in the culture—this, perhaps, has a lot to
do with his passion for poetry. Spirit First is honored to be the first major
publication of Mike Joachin’s poetry.
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