by Alice Gardner
The Ultimate Disaster
Is living
In the moment
A walking of a tightrope
Between past and future?
Is it a peeling away
Of all the escape routes?
A letting go of the possibility
Of getting what we want
At some other moment
When we might be more mature,
Or more ready?
Or have put in enough work? Or is living in this moment
A falling from the
Imagined tightrope?
A vertical descent
Into whatever life has in store
Without control or containment
Of the perpetual disaster
That is life at its worst and best
All at once. How is it
That having fallen thus
We have left behind need
For escape,
Need for a future
To come through for us,
Even the everpresent
Need for love?...
Finding ourselves
Instead, surrounded
Embraced by richness
Beyond measure,
Completely beyond our
Wildest imagining. All our ideas
Of the past pale
Next to the vibrancy
Of life met without
The intermediary of
Ideas about what is
Being seen. Life stands
Forth as radiant and
Fulfilling already,
Even as some things
May be dying in agony
While others are
Being born.
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Writing
Leaving alone for the moment
The thought of writing.
Letting lie fallow the ideas
of poem or book or story,
There are only curved
Marks on paper,
Fingers moving
On a keyboard.
No rhyme, no reason,
Just life in motion,
Flowing into form.
Something becoming
Visible
That was hazy,
Even invisible.
Something taking
A new form
Not seen before. What never was
Has come to life.
What was out of reach
Has come, is coming
Within our grasp,
Offering further hints
Of what is beyond
The reach of our history
Lying deep in the unknown,
And unknowable depths
Of what it is
To be this that we are. © 2009 Alice Gardner
If you wish to explore these subjects further you are most welcome to visit the Wide Awake Living website and blog, and/or to consider purchasing my book at Amazon.
Alice
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