The difficult thing

To be here now -

       The difficult thing

For desires ungainly restlessness


          Moves in times


                   Endlessness -

This is something that I wrote whilst sitting on the banks of the Rhine(going on its beautiful powerful way- ) looking at the churches and blue hills beyond in Germany.



           
                   France- Winter - 2015



      News on the television -

      Strange - only silent images

     Without commentary

      A clear Winter day -


     Birds fly unawares

    Across the camera frame -

    Trees patiently await Spring -

    In the distance a field is being ploughed

       


   Policemen dressed as samurai

  Squat with their weapons

  Behind a low wall

  Drinking coffee and smoking -

 Awaiting the assault

 All is deceptively quiet -




Suddenly an explosion

Blasts the silence -

A man appears on the flat rooftop

Waving his arms

The assault is over

The battle won

A nation breathes again -



The temporary insanity of

Man persists -

But the illumined Tao

Goes on forever -


               

Its time that time just turned around-its time that time concluded-

Time-always means tension  The process of becoming - and we never get there Maybe because there is nowher to go -

 intermezzo     do not swim in the corrosive river of time  allow time to go  on its restless way stay on the bank of the river  allow time to go its own  restless way-TIME is the enemy