Being Here – Day 12
Being Here – Poem Day 12
Being Here – Poem Day 12
Today’s poem steps back slightly.
Day 10 poem worked quietly with the body
and Day 11 named the inner experience of wanting
This poem widens the frame.
It looks at the conditions that shape urgency around connection —
how closeness now moves through messages, timing, availability,
and how absence can feel louder than it once did.
Nothing here is meant to settle the longing
or explain it away. The poem doesn’t turn inward.
It doesn’t ask you to reflect on yourself.
It simply places the experience where it belongs —
inside the world relationships now live in.
Sometimes that wider view matters.
Not because it fixes anything,
but because it loosens the idea that this urgency is a personal flaw.
The poem is below, offered as context, not correction. Sit back, read it, and let it land. (I have included the audio if you like to hear it as well)
Warmly,
Per
Poem – When I need connection right now – Noticing
Urgent longing for connection doesn’t arise in isolation.
It takes shape within patterns of contact, distance,
and availability that surround everyday life.
Messages travel instantly now.
Responses can arrive — or not — without explanation.
Presence is often partial,
split across places, screens, and demands.
In this landscape,
wanting connection can intensify quickly.
The absence of reply feels louder.
Delays carry more meaning than they once did.
Care and closeness are no longer tied to physical proximity alone.
They move through signals, timings, tones, and pauses
— all of which can be misread or over-weighted
when connection feels uncertain.
Many people learn to stay alert to these shifts.
To watch for signs of engagement.
To reach sooner rather than later,
just in case the window closes.
Seen this way, urgency around connection is not simply personal.
It reflects the conditions relationships now live within
— fragmented time, shared attention,
and contact that can disappear without warning.
Noticing this doesn’t reduce the wanting.
It doesn’t make closeness easier or harder to reach.
It simply places the experience within the wider context that shapes it,
where the need to connect often has as much to do
with circumstance as with the heart itself.
