Measure

what is the true measure?
how do we know whether
we did the right thing or not?
at the end of a long walk,
how would you react
when someone tells you
you walked a wrong way?
would you choose to believe it?
what guides your truth?
what guides your values,
your principles?
at the end of the day,
what will you do with what you find?
do you have what it takes to see
what is real?

8.4.2023

Beginning

staring into the dot,
I saw only the dot.
the more I stared at it though,
I started to see something else.
I started to appreciate how it stays here
when it could have been anywhere.
I appreciate how it encompasses opposite
of blankness.
I appreciate how we all are eventually
a dot, like itself, when seen from far, far away.
I started to see the world, the life, all encompassed.
I appreciated the dot.

8.3.2023

Open

as if opening a plugged sink hole,
I opened my attention to others.
as if a visiting storm, words flew by.
I stood and caught them all,
trying to read what it means underneath.
they were concerned.
they were frustrated.
they were reminiscing.
when I saw them,
they saw me seeing them.
and it was a good feeling
like a clear quiet sun ray after the storm.

7.27.2023