--- title: Moving Anyway date: 2026-06-27T10:50:19Z modified: 2026-07-23T02:17:33Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/moving-anyway/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 4696 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Moving-Anyway.jpeg" featured_image_alt: Moving Anyway author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2026-07-23T02:17:33Z tags: - Life Poems --- I have been having one of those stretches where the morning feels okay and by afternoon everything just slows down again, for no real reason. I keep telling myself to get up and do something, but some days my body just does not listen. I do not have an answer for it yet, I just wanted to write down how it actually feels instead of pretending I have it sorted out. ![Moving Anyway](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Moving-Anyway.jpeg) Moving Anyway the alarm goes off and i lie there longer than i should, the ceiling fan turning slow above my head, some mornings i can get up without thinking twice, some mornings even that feels like too much to ask; by noon the list on my table has not moved an inch, the glass of water beside me has gone warm and untouched, i keep telling myself just start with one small thing, but my hands stay where they are and the hours pass on; some part of me wants to walk out and do something real, another part just wants to lie here till the light changes, i watch the shadow move across the wall without much care, and somewhere in between i lose the whole afternoon; in the evening i stand on the balcony and look at nothing, the traffic sounds the same as it does every single day, i tell myself tomorrow i will get up and actually move, but i have told myself that more times than i can count; ton[i](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/i-am-only-me.md)ght i am still the same person who could not start today, the work is still sitting there waiting for me to begin, i do not know if tomorrow will be any different from this one, i am just hoping i show up anyway and try;