Faith

Everyday is truly special,

each a part of new beginnings,

living in this temporary vessel,

ever more so in life’s final innings.

Even when pain is so replete 

that all else disappears,

I’ve learned that there is

but one useful answer:

sit still, be quiet, trust in what appears.

I’ve learned to live with pain,

some of it complete,

stabbing, burning, numbing,

sometimes red hot heat.

If I could transfer this learning,

would that help to

Make America Love Again?

If I could teach this stillness,

would it heal our civic pain?

I  see my body is really nothing

more than thought itself,

and everything is brief.

It works to see that as the truth,

it always brings relief.

Let that be enough.

Don’t be so hard on you.

You’re strong enough, you’re tough,

You deserve pain-freedom, true.

You deserve to be forgiven,

totally, quickly, sweetly.

Life is wild, wacky, wonderful,

in process, totally, completely.

So, out your doubt,

dissolve it, send it packing.

Seek your healing thought 

within yourself, see there’s nothing lacking.

That which is really crucial,

only the heart can see.

Something Good is about to happen,

open yourself, just let it be.

The eyes are not useful to see this,

since the really essential is unseen.

Peace requires one to look within,

surrender all the drama, 

through trust come totally clean.

Be calm, breathe and realize 

that this much is certainly true,

with self-love and affirmative faith,

you’ve done all that you can do.