Accepting
the uncertainty,
the not knowing,
not having all the answers.
Wanting a neat, concise package to present and instead
having a messy, unwieldy armful of stuff
that refuses to be condensed into
neatness,
completeness.
"Hello my desire to present certainty, clarity and neatness"
"Hello world that offers an amorphous mass of messiness"
"Can you two meet and shake hands?
Can you live together knowing that one will never be the other?"
Where is the thesaurus when I want to present
a concise train of thought
instead of a jumble of disconnected ramblings?
I see you both,
my desire and reality,
the knot in the stomach
produced by not finding
the smooth and equanimous path
I want to present to others.
Mindfulness and acceptance
are not about waiting until
the sea is calm to set sail,
but learning how to ride the waves,
and embracing the thrill of the ride
as well as sea-sickness.
Where is the neat conclusion
to this train of thought?
There isn't one!
© 6 July 2012
Yet you know by the end you will have the neatness you crave for and it will become part of someone else's tangle. :)
ReplyDeleteThis made me smile and sympathise at the same time. No amount of mindfulness could make me embrace seasickness. :)
Good luck. Hxx