Zen Mode

our daily chant
we call prayer
is repetitive

we die a little more
slipping into stupor
on each immersion

where’s wonderment 
joyous astonishment 
of childlike innocence 

meld with the deity
in a fusion of hearts
nothing less will suffice

27-February-2023
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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