Hi,
I was organizing old notes on my phone last night — the kind you promise yourself you’ll clean up someday but never do — and I found this poem again. I didn’t even remember writing it.
It must’ve been from a year or two ago.
A time when I was trying to move on from something I didn’t fully understand yet. I was exhausted, constantly comparing my pace to everyone else’s, wondering why my healing didn’t look as fast or clean as theirs.
Reading it now, I realized it’s still true. Some reminders don’t age. They just wait for you to be ready for them.
Poem:
The Turtle Theory
Turtles don’t rush.
Turtles don’t panic.
Turtles don’t care who’s ahead of them.
They just keep swimming,
one stroke at a time.
Through chaos, through calm.
And somehow, they always make it to shore.
Because speed means nothing
when your journey is built on patience.
You don’t need to sprint.
You just need to stay in motion.
Slow progress is still progress.
And peace will always outlast pressure.
When I first wrote this, I think I was trying to convince myself to stop sprinting through pain.
Now, I’m just learning how to sit with it — to let life unfold at its own rhythm.
If this reached you at the right time, maybe it’s because you needed to slow down too.
Talk soon,
TearsOfTheSoul
✨ P.S. My book Tears of the Soul is finally out. It’s full of poems like this — ones that found me again when I needed them most.
And if you’ve ever wanted to learn how I create the videos that bring my poems to life, I made a short, beginner-friendly course you can check out here.
Until next time, don’t rush the becoming. You’re already in motion.