Riveted

It is possible that things will not get better
than they are now, or have been known to be.
It is possible that we are past the middle now.
It is possible that we have crossed the great water
without knowing it, and stand now on the other side.
Yes: I think that we have crossed it. Now
we are being given tickets, and they are not
tickets to the show we had been thinking of,
but to a different show, clearly inferior.

Check again: it is our own name on the envelope.
The tickets are to that other show.

It is possible that we will walk out of the darkened hall
without waiting for the last act: people do.
Some people do. But it is probable
that we will stay seated in our narrow seats
all through the tedious denouement
to the unsurprising end- riveted, as it were;
spellbound by our own imperfect lives
because they are lives,
and because they are ours.

~~ Robyn Sarah ~~

Hope is the thing with feathers…

Lightly Child, Lightly

So beautiful… 🙂

Live & Learn

I cannot tell you
how the light comes.

What I know
is that it is more ancient
than imagining.

That it travels
across an astounding expanse
to reach us.

That it loves
searching out
what is hidden
what is lost
what is forgotten
or in peril
or in pain.

That it has a fondness
for the body
for finding its way
toward flesh
for tracing the edges
of form
for shining forth
through the eye,
the hand,
the heart.

I cannot tell you
how the light comes,
but that it does.
That it will.
That it works its way
into the deepest dark
that enfolds you,
though it may seem
long ages in coming
or arrive in a shape
you did not foresee.

And so
may we this day
turn ourselves toward it.
May we lift our faces
to let it find us.
May we bend our bodies
to follow…

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Compassion hurts…

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destiny of others. You must learn to either carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.” ~ Andrew Boyd

A few weeks ago with Katie… :-)

The River

“I am only a ferryman and it is my task to take people across this river. I

have taken thousands of people across and to all of them my river has

been nothing but a hindrance on their journey. They have travelled for

money and business, to weddings and on pilgrimages; the river has

been in their way and the ferryman was there to take them quickly

across the obstacle. However, amongst the thousands there have been

a few, four or five, to whom the river was not an obstacle. They have

heard its voice and listened to it, and the river has become holy to them,

as it has to me. “Have you also learned that secret from the river; that

there is no such thing as time?” That the river is everywhere at the same

time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the

current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the

present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of

the future.”

 

~ From ‘Siddhartha’ by Herman Hesse

 

 

Farewell Autumn…