The Unprepared Pause

There’s an awful lot of talking, on the importance of slowing down,

being more mindful,

saying one’s prayers,

there’s an awful lot of talking on

things to do, and things not to do

there’s an awful lot of talking on toxic relationships,

and positive thinking, self care and community resposibility.

There’s just so much talking going on,

and that’s even before you get to the scrolling, the endless

addiction of scrolling, as we read about all the talking.

My question is... what if we just stopped, as in dead in our tracks,

as if an outer or maybe an inner force clicked the pause button.

You know what might happen first? Maybe a garland

of endless questions might spill forth from your mind,

beginning with, what am I suppose to do? where am I going?

What’s going on? And, am I doing this thing right?

The answers are nothing, nowhere, nothing and Yes,

most defiineity yes. The yes, is the beginning of our surrendering.

One surrenders to the unknown, to the Light and the Dark.

In one minute, less than that, one breath, which turns into an eternity.

in one more breath we disappear and become our true nature,

the being without,at the same time, the being with everything.

Be still in the silence, be so still, until, all the inner chatter

falls like rain, softening, while awakening the soul of the soul.