14 July 2001
Re-Membering is For Getting
Beside a lake
Looking at the landscapes of your faces
For this moment forgetting
All the hardness and self-recrimination
For a moment there is no 'me'
There is only a breathing being
Looking at other breathing beings.
Looking back along a haphazard path zig-zagging
Strewn with errors
-Can you forgive your self?
Is there such a force as God
Breathing inside you?
Picture, it is Long Ago-
A wanting to do something good
Is what takes you to sleep
And so you are praying beside
The bunk bed that holds
your sleeping brother above;
You honour your family name by name
Knowing when you awaken,
They will all still be here.
Picture again, it is Now-
The wanting that takes you to sleep is the same-
But when you awaken
They are not still here
You are older on the outside
But on the inside....?
Realisation that everything comes down to dissolution
Everything formed and built
Eventually goes to pieces
Then the pieces go
And there is a residue
And you move back to the start