The Mysterious Self-Awareness of Matter in Motion

Motion is being,
and motivated
motion is living

and the mysterious
capacity of motivation
to reflexively be aware

of being motivated
is consciousness,
and as for soul

and spirit, these
are real enough,
but as actions,

as behaviors, not
as substance, neither
material nor ethereal,

and the richer, the more
heightened the awareness,
the greater the spirit,

the more soulful
the motivated motion
of being becomes.

We perform our souls,
and they too are motivated
motions, and what we could

call, metaphorically,
our inner energy is
literally the behavior

that is spirit, mysterious
self-awareness of matter
in motivated motion.