Wonder and Astonishment

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we readily admit that we know not how the tumbler falls each morn enabling us to awake from our slumber we are astonished! so here we are then like a computer rebooting memory infusing sense of continuity to our fleeting mind-body ego form identity which we then take to be the real us even though facts are otherwise we yet think and act as fools we are astonished! musing in silence we see that even though we have aged innate aliveness, screen of consciousness remains unchanged upon which earth life does play we are astonished! universe tests and jests posing problems needing solving we assume the role of limited doership jubilant at our success and sorrowful at failure while the hermit living next door just smiles doing nothing save choosing response dream life plays on in both cases one is happy, the other not we are astonished! 28-July-2021 Finding your muse poetry contest

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