Constantly Renewed

The fog lies heavy

hugging the ground

and leaving the world obscure

 

there is movement

ghost like among the trees

does tiptoeing thru the gray

tentative and alert

 

I walk gently

one step at a time

focusing on the ground beneath my feet

that small piece of reality 

that i can see clearly

 

I must walk gently

through each day

one step at a time

focusing on that moment in which i now live

 

too often I walk

glancing back

peering ahead 

into the fog of life

tripping over the reality that 

is this moment

in which I stand

 

it is this moment

which is the only reality 

I really have

 

it is in this moment alone

in this constantly renewed immediacy

that I can be true

to my own deep reality

 

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In silence we face and admit the gap between the depth of our being, which we consistently ignore,

and the surface, which is untrue to our own reality (Thomas Merton)