focus, as humans

as humans, 

our style of focus exists as conflict.

we bring contentiousness to the reframe,

looking for positioning in reaction or response.

we can't actually freely go there,

but we can take-on what it is, for where it is.

it's an add-on to what and where we already are.

experience is an enveloping slipstream of potential.

since we have the immediate past of linger

and the expectant future billowing with thought,

both need elbow room in their comings and goings.

so focus has to make room 

for the imposition of now

and all of the tangentials 

that make it into an understanding's construction.

even self-listening has its own passive-aggressiveness.

glitches of unsaid questioning mindfully occur.

follow-along has to stay current with the incoming

and yet edit on the fly.

this could all lead into an inner conversation

or just stay in the instructional or the overheard.

focus is not only the verbiage on the intake

but also the presence of deliverance,

the tone of carriage,

and the topic's extensiveness, then verbally identified.

once in gear, it's like a bicycle speed

that keeps one upright and functioning

in an a to b sort of ongoing way.

so in the buffet-line 

of first line conscious deliverances.

hi, what up?

and we are on our mindful way(?) . . .