I Am The Process

Chest warm at daybreak

Hands move before the doubt

This breath is where

I begin

I wake with a reason already alive in my skin My body

knows the answer before the questions begin The ground under my feet

feels earned and known Each measured step says this is home

I do not run because something distant calls my name I move

because the motion itself becomes a flame Every draft every rep every

try makes me more I find my strength in the work at

the core

I let the ending go

I give my whole heart to the climb

The power lives here now

In these hands in this time

I am fully alive in the doing

That is where I find my power

I have already arrived in this moment

I rise with every hour The process is the prize I carry

The fire is in the way I move

I am fully alive in the doing

And the doing makes me true

Late on a Tuesday the room turned gold on the wall Open

pages coffee rings proof I gave my all Cool air on my

arms and a calm in my chest Hours deep in the labor

and somehow more blessed No hollow hunger for a finish line in

sight Only fullness in the effort and a steady inner light I

stopped asking the day to tell me what I was worth I

made it matter with my hands and gave that meaning birth I

burn brighter through the failure I grow stronger through the strain

Love inside the work itself

Turns the struggle into gain

I am not waiting to become I become with every breath I

am fully alive in the doing

That is where I find my power

I have already arrived in this moment

I rise with every hour The process is the prize I carry

The fire is in the way I move I am fully alive

in the doing

And the doing makes me true

I am here now

I love the work

And that love

will not break