Before

More on change

Before we can change anything

First

We have to see it,

Listen to it: breathing;

Feel  its texture

Rough or smooth;

Smell it

Like a rose

Or a catbox

That needs cleaning;

Taste it

Like a cookie

Fresh from the oven

Or that vegetable

We hated as a child

And perhaps

We still do.

Before change

Comes the noticing

That something

Needs to change.

And then

Only then

Comes the how