We are creatures
spawned from change;
in the never ending churn
of an existence in motion.
Temporary, transient
and small,
like pebbles of awareness.
Existent ,for but moments,
in the endless deluge.
We catch our breath…
and then we are gone.
The transient
is all we have
in this moving
eternity.
A momentary awareness
is all we are
in the great flow
of unknowing.
We try
to freeze and name
its passing
with our words.
But those are only
arbitrary gestures.
Irrelevant,
before they are swept away
in the endless changing.
Sometimes,
if we are very quiet,
we can sense
the infinite
unity of it…
before
another thought
arises in us
and we are lost again
in the small pebble’s
forlorn dream
of understanding.
Gallagher
23 July 24
Christchurch
- After an on-line Enlightened Living meeting