Begin as if beginning was the end
of time when muscles rest and skin is dry.
There is no time to hesitate; extend
your will beyond the horizontal sky.
Now pull each stride beneath you as the road
concedes to your omnipotence of grace.
Flow forward like a river and erode
the confidence of time with rushing pace.
Hold on to spirit rising from within
your heart; hold on to spirit like a song
that calls you like a siren to begin
each stride like the beginning; move along
the course as if the world was yours to run
and race the end as if you’d just begun.