The Day Will Take Me Soon
I’m not holding on to anything,
not the body or its dreams,
or dream-bodies.
Not really thinking,
watching unattached the mind-play.
Mind sews cobwebs into chain-mail.
That which holds this 'I' together
rolls with no anchors
within its own confused rivering.
I leave and return.
The sun is rising behind winter trees,
I am not looking,
I am remembering another sunrise.
Yet the sunrise is out there,
even now rising,
that unseen light
clears mind and eyes.
The day will take me soon,
commanding me to own what I claim to be,
but in the next pre-dawn,
the next surfacing,
I will know again that I am not.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2022
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