Wednesday, 8 April 2020

The immediacy of being


All at sea
The sails unfurl
 I tac toward the shore
 With a roar
 Low in the Belly of the waves
 Cutting water
 Flinging spray.
 My mind fills
 My past reveals 
 My memory Moves  
like mercury on rock
 To these days
 The fiction made fact days
. The Science idiot times

To tell my younger self
That I could not own  life 
 That it spills through fingers
 Nor chain love 
For it  and time  are borrowed 
Nor could I possess beauty 
For age draws on skin 
Casts a web of karmic sin
  upon a pretty face.

What used to be
will Vanish With out trace. 
Like a ship in winter 
When the hurricanes  blow

All of this will  go
The sheer physics of it Will go 
The very biology.

But in every second my
Senses shone in incandescent incarnation  
Of the shear experience in it. 
The very seeing by it 
How bright it is!

To wake up briefly in this
Eternity and wonder in numinous awe
 how deeply loving is the moment.  
How eternal the immediacy of being.

By evening 
my sails bloom
As the harbour light
Guides me home

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