I asked myself, “How deep will this sorrow burrow into my joy of being?”
I am witness, I see.
I cannot judge my ignorance of complicity,
I am also perpetrator, the defence
the prosecutor, the victim and
the one who weeps.
I am one of babbling fools, but
I am witness in gratitude for my seeing.
In my seeing my tears are miracles,
my sadness is drought.
I am sorry for my life
I rejoice and praise my life
when I see that
My life is as all life:
A remarkable mystery of balance
The culmination in each second
of millions of unknown years.
In my moment, I am but
a mote in an inexorable flow of change.
I can see, I witness,
I weep, I exult
nothing is mine, but
I belong to all.
On May 7, 2024 B.L.P. Simmons wrote :