an ending

the mental exercise that determines the future

Of course you should dream. Of course, you must. But more important than that, a promise binding you inextricably to the creation of the future…you MAY.

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I knew there would be an ending

but did not imagine

it would be a happy one

there you will find the mother who

abandoned you when you were little

there, the friend you betrayed

arms wide and willing to forgive

it will come as a great surprise

this blossoming of a rose in spring

this shedding of a too-tight covering

— a crustacean’s great relief

we live for such reconciliation

we come to see

it lives in the seed of the moment

we realize, we were there all along

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*One housekeeping note. If you clicked on my last post — Meditation can change the mind — and were disappointed to find nothing but a nondescript link, and were too suspicious to click on it, I went back and put a more proper video link to the monk’s talk on Youtube. Check it out if you have the interest!