in the moment

“Everyone is after me to exercise, get in shape, play football, rush about, even go swimming and flying.

Fair enough.

Everyone is after me to take it easy. They all make doctor's appointments for me, eyeing me in that quizzical way.

What is it?

Everyone is after me to take a trip, to come in, to leave, not to travel, to die and, alternatively, not to die

It doesn't matter.”

                                              Pablo Neruda

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We wander through life on the edge of death

Always another day closer

Sometimes creeping

Sometimes sliding rapidly toward the abyss

and while yet dying we are seeking not to die

and we talk of exercise and diets

balance, meditation

bucket lists

and more

life seekers

but live or die

it doesn’t matter for

for we die to live

and live to die

and

so each moment

is our last moment

to live

sacred child

ceding the moment

surrendering our self

in the fullness of love

received and given

until

there are no more moments

and no more gifts to be give

and no more left to be received

and then

we rest

home again