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description: A meditation poem about meeting anxious, restless weather with curiosity instead of endurance, and letting the mind's tight grip slowly loosen.
title: Weather
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# Weather

A meditation poem about meeting anxious, restless weather with curiosity instead of endurance, and letting the mind's tight grip slowly loosen.

This morning the weather came in low,  
and the body stood exposed in it,  
teetering, never quite finding balance,  
and every thought that passed through  
took on the color of the sky.

So the mind went looking,  
as minds do,  
for the source of the storm, the cause,  
the one thing that, once found,  
would clear the sky again.

I held on.  
I called it practice,  
this jaw set against the wind,  
this fist around the breath,  
and the sitting showed me only  
the shape of my own clenching.

But somewhere in the holding  
I looked up.

And there it was, the mind,  
tireless, inventive,  
trying every door it knew,  
bringing me whatever tools  
this moment had to offer,  
the way a child brings stones  
to someone who is crying.

How could I not love it?

The feeling in the chest  
was only traveling with me,  
a passenger, no harm intended,  
here because the day allowed it,  
leaving when the day moves on.

So the breath goes through the heavy place,  
not a wind sent to clear it,  
only air, passing  
the way a walker passes through fog,  
nothing pushed aside.

And the thoughts take on its softness.  
No one sent the weather.  
Not me. Not anyone.  
There was never anyone to fight,  
only warm air meeting cold,  
and a feeling rising where they met.

And outside the small room of my worry  
the world kept its old pace.  
Leaves turned. People walked on  
down their own changing roads.  
Nothing had stopped.

The fist begins to open,  
to loosen its grip,  
one finger, then the next,  
until the hand is just a hand,  
resting in the weather,  
not sure,  
and willing to stay.

If you’d prefer to read this offline, you can download a PDF version below.

Written and shared by Roger Katona

Contact: [roger.katona@gmail.com](mailto:roger.katona@gmail.com)

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