Memory is Like That

Combining it all, 

all the bright moments, 

the clouds over the sun, 

the yin and yang of it all, 

we look back 

   on a day 

      or a year 

and see only moments. 

scattered and watery,

in colour or black and white

for memory is like that

elusive and ever changing.

“The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.”

~ Mawlana Jalai- al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi 

In Your Bones

Acceptance is believing truth 

not the truth of someone else 

but the truth that 

lives in your bones 

that tells you 

what you don’t want 

    to believe 

that your life is of 

    your own making 

the little life that came with you 

but without instructions. 

Instructions whispered, spoken or yelled 

through each day of your life 

until all of them make sense 

but shaped with your own wisdom 

because you know the truth 

that lives in your bones.

“Knowing others is intelligence. 

Knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

We Can only Speculate

Reason when there 

is an accident ~ 

whether a trip and fall or 

the crunch of metal against metal ~ flies out the window and makes no sense.

We can only speculate 

and try to make sense of a chaotic situation,

smooths the wrinkles in the timeline. Epilepsy’s seizure activity is the chaos.

Sleep smooths out the wrinkles 

while the time line is on pause.

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order..”

~ Carl Jung, psychiatrist

(1875 ~ 1961)