Wrestling thoughts, early morning,
Coffee dark and supportive.
A poet cat mind within,
Creative, non-conformist, and wise.
Reaching in to discover the lines of thought traversing time
Meaning conveyed in objects traveling between forgotten memories
A Stradivarius plucked through ages
A Buddha’s hair stored in Myanmar
Christ’s essence held in a wafer
Mohammad’s heart held in the Koran
The living presence of individual’s lives
Contained in remnants through touch
Through words
In thought
In mind.
The one mind of eternity
of heart
of the essence
of life and death and rebirth
of infinitesimal lifetimes, lived in a day, in a generation, in an eternity.
The one infinite mind without beginning or end
The constant mind seen only in change, in evolution.

© Susan Smalley