The Essence of Being Alive

If you hear your heartbeats louder than anything,
If your emotions stir up to a high range,
If your thoughts overflow in all directions,
If your body moves boldly in sync with those thoughts,
Then you are amazingly alive.

When your heart smiles at the beauty around,
When it invokes anger against what defies your values,
When your voice rises in response to your inner supremacy,
When your face expresses every emotion perfectly,
Then you are intensely alive.

When your mind recalls all the memories you’ve walked through,
When your hand reaches out to call loved ones to relive those moments,
When your lips begin with a smile that grows into louder laughter,
When your throat feels strained from those endless laughs,
Then you are beautifully alive.

When you reconnect with yourself reading these lines,
When you feel a wave of revived relaxation,
When you truly live this moment of breeze from the inside out,
You are entirely alive!