Breaking Ball, Low and Inside

​Breaking Ball, Low and Inside

Too often, I have been witnessed
to produce strike after strike,
chasing after another breaking ball-

low and inside. Now, in the heat
of this inning of my life, I am
recommitted to slowing down,

to allow myself to enter that sweet
spot where even the minutiae of moments
stops on a dime- as if suspended in time.

Bring on your best pitcher throwing
his nastiest stuff and I will stand
here, watching the slomo play out

before these watchful eyes. The time
of striking out has come and gone,
now that I see beyond appearances-

way deep within the quantum collision
of molecules.  Come on, I dare you,
throw me another breaking ball, low and inside.