meditation

Monday’s Rune: I

 

me

sometimes
it’s like this—
I breathe
and just
be—me

nothing more
nothing less
nothing else

I’m
not complaining
I like to be me—
just me

no problem
to solve,
nothing
to write
or to see
or feel
or read
or hear
or to understand

just to breathe
and
feel my heart
beat—
if I itch
then
I scratch

I survive
I’m alive
and that’s
good enough
no zen
or yoga
just me
and
eternity

and now you

Look both ways and mind the gaps,
but also remember to just be, sometimes,
and let go of it all,
whenever you can.

Monday’s Poem

 

Contrasts in life

Listen to the sounds of the calming sea
Hear the cries of the sea birds
Marking the time of sunset, the end
Of another day, a time of contrasts.

See the beauty and feel the call
of tranquility and peace, calm and
the inevitable cycle of life.
Be the fish, the birds, be all creatures.

Let nature bless you with life,
Soon enough she will take you back,
Back to the beginning, to the circle.
Soon enough, life becomes death.

And death returns to new birth,
Let the contrast calm you.
Allow this sunset to mark you now as
did the sunrise mark you then.

Let the awe and beauty of nature
give you peace in the wonder,
in the contrast of day and night,
and in the inevitable cycle of life.

As we play our role, all
connected to the cycle
each doing our part for
birth, life, death, and rebirth.

© Bill Reynolds 7/23/2018

Look both ways, to the past, to the future, and to the future’s future.
Mind the gaps here and now.