MEDITATION

Elusive peace of mind

Just as I want to sit quietly

The prattling powers prevent

My mind from clearing out the mayhem

Which somehow is empowered

The moment it is not welcome

Then comes an open space

I exist in another place

A warmly lit meadow

Time becomes meaningless

The mind is still and rests

Until some springs of thought

Bubble up again and flow through

A tiny channel -then become a river

Which finds a path of least resistance

Through my now splashing, gushing mind

Just as I want to sit and be

In that other wondrous peace

That other open place

Yet this time it is closer

And I just want to sit there

Forever…………..

Nori

2004