Life Without Horizons

Wife's job vanished Bank account diminishing Future uncertain Wolves are nosing at the door again. My children smile at me, Dance for joy when I come home; Suddenly, no more fear, no worries for awhile Funny how it takes all my concentration, Such an effort of will, To acheive, now and again, The state of mind they take for granted. The background noise of the big world is so high One can barely think. So I strive to rise above it, To lift up and out of my little self Climbing higher and higher 'Til the horizon's edges Fall Away And everything is Present: No Future No Past No Necessities Only the one Conscious Moment Shining here unbounded. I see once more that I shall suffer for awhile, But can this really touch my joys, my freedom? - Only by my own permission. No Joy without Pain No Light without Dark No Life without Death Where are the sufferings of yesterday, of the years before? Memories now, fading into the distance. Troubles roll in, break over our lives Then go, then come again Sliding forwards and back on the tides of tomorrows. I feel my pain, and close behind it The world's far greater pain screaming From its thousand daily wounds Yet every day we go on, regardless Fight the strain and it strengthens, Let it break, then it recedes. Do something, or nothing The Wheel turns just the same. Easily said, yet hard to do; Nothing's more difficult Than doing nothing. My love runs deep, my senses alive and vibrant with her, Countless small delights lay near to hand. I've two children more beautiful than the stars To gaze on as they sleep; drunken with love of them - What matters some struggle, next to this? Yesterday is lost to time, and tomorrow yet to be; All I can hold is this One Moment - I must not let it fall! I look within the Moment Horizons Fall Away. Reach for It - It slides away Listen for It - no sound will come - But glance away, be still awhile and wait - It steals up in the wind and blows right though you, Singing. It is like deep water. On the surface everything changes, flows But down below abides a Great Stillness. Horizons Fall Away.