Feeling No Pain

The doc cured me….for now…

no pain is sheer bliss just feeling normal

not distracted by something about to fall off…

more man than automaton…for now.

Reality didn’t change when I was indisposed…

it’s as clear now as it ever has been

a diamond in the rough occasionally sparkles 

“What was that?” I always hear them say.

If the body is not distracted the mind can look

around be interested notice the irony of flowers

a child babbling happily walking down the street…

I hope you’re not heartless just saying.

Not waiting for vacation Carpe Diem play them

if you’ve got them you could die on stage in front 

of a thousand people it’s happened more than once

and I’m stuck with an empty line to finish this stanza.

“Nature finds a way.” That is, creativity, nature’s way…

Evolution is nature’s way of saying: “What else can we know?”

That’s why Buddha looked at his own mind and found…

everything…

it was so profound what he discovered that it took him 

the rest of his life to train his students so they could hear.

Nature finds a way.