James Moore Poet Narrative

A Cheshire Smile

Recognize your own true face
Not the one others see
Nor the one a mirror shows. 

See the face visible only without eyes
The one you have always had
Which never changes.

This face is the one looking at you now
The one that is always looking
With piercing equanimity beyond acceptance and rejection.

Once you recognize it
There is nothing else to do
As life continues to unfold as it always has.

But you are changed
By the light of the wisdom
That the you you think your face sees does not exist.

What’s that your true face shows?
A Cheshire smile 
Dissolving slowly into space… 

(10/28/23)

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