meditation

did you look around the corner in the night
when i had come and gone and on a deep blue
cushion sat and thought and tried to stay
tried to stay breathing in and breathing out
constricted lungs won't settle down won't let
their guard down now the breath is drawn
were you ever there at all did you put your hand
wrap it round hold onto the door jamb did you turn and
see me there on the right sitting with my hands
over my thighs my eyes were still open and everything
everything kept streaming in while all my breath
was tight and torn and pushing all my
peace and solitude aside. 

Suddenly

Suddenly
I saw the moving into
as a choice, the moving
away from a decision.  Any
one of us can thwart Destiny.
We rob God to own ourselves.
All that power in a mortal
frame.  Just say no. Just
say yes.  Love will never
overrule our folly.

New Year's Day

Welcome, welcome,
Glad the day!
Hail, the New Year,
come what may!