Strength

Strength
Where is it?
Your mind
Your legs
Your arms
Your words
Your music
Or maybe in your
Unique charms
That shine is smiles
That you spread
Your skill
Your intuition
Logic
Calm acceptance
Force of will
Your prayers
Your meditation
For reasons that
Cannot be understood
Even by your closest ones
Or you simply scanning
Seeking practice
In which you notice
All of this
And then breathe in
Breathe out
To find the extra noise
And slowly welcome
Or clear it
Or could your strength reside
In something more elusive yet?
To know this
Stop
Let your heart beat on
If you still yourself enough
As you turn in
Down inside of you
To sort out the racket
Then maybe
You will hear it
Or
Could it be
In that true but silenced locality
More secret than
Your unfelt unseen
Hair or skin
That delicate
Universal part of you
We mostly see in the way you seem
And what you do
Which yields us
But a fraction of a clue
And which for the sake
Of simple elegance
We call your very spirit?

- Nirmohi