Awake
Awareness; so easy to conceive, so hard to maintain
and each time I let it slip I know
sooner or later that I’ve lost it
when I awake, adrift, again.
No formula will do it, only doing it will.
As the knife hones to the sharpening stone,
so I must go into it … ever into it
leaving all thoughts of ‘it’ behind.
Food, sleep, exercise, work, loving and seeing
are but a few names of the places I’ve slept.
Bhagwan, Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Mohammad
are but a few names of those
who have called us to awake.
Here I write to make tangible the meditation
but this paper and ink are not it.
Here I am awake and want to stay so
a baby Buddha crawling towards the light.
gallagher
27 july 83 - Irvine, CA
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
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