“What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?”

Each day, start this way, try so hard, gotta say,

Mantra as my mind awakens, dreams, fears, recede, then sometimes rush back in,

Mantra, prayer, mantra again, Metta, show me the way, forward only, easy, ease in, ease in,

Some water, my daily meds, teeth brushed,

Then stretch, caffeinate, must say, easy in, the only way, mind, day comes in to focus,

You know this, slow this, day, slow start, needed,

GOOD.