This business of living in a body
or needing a body to live,
we’ve got to do better. True,
it’s given us great cathedrals
and sculpture and paintings,
nice memories to bring with us
if we could somehow travel
into the world of pure knowing.
Pure knowing, everything known
and no knower needed to know it,
so we’d live in pure awareness.

2.
We are still here
the trees whisper,
green or bare–
don’t think.
Your body
is the only one.
Who knows?
What you know
may last forever.

29 October 2022