In the Moment

Mechanical Clock by jimking@deviantart.com

The past is gone with its joys and sorrows and yet it wants to linger

To corrupt the moment with its unanswered questions and haunted moments

It wants to continue to speak long after its allotted time has passed

It wants to live again and again in that long awaited moment

That kairotic time where grace and possibility have opened up

Where there is no longer the need to seek a better past

Or to live life as an apology for the missteps we make real and imagined

And in the moment I am trying to live and love and dwell

Maybe someday this moment will be an echo of a past gone away

But for now I am in the moment and I am alive

The future also desires to cast its own voice into the moment

Whispering its potentials and possibilities, pitfalls and perils

Filling the space with what ifs, might becomes and the questions of uncertainty

Speaking in harmony with the past it tries to haunt the moment

With the specters of questions that cannot be answered

And may never be asked, if not in the fears of what could be

Yet in this time of grace there is perhaps the courage to listen

To listen primarily to the moment, not ignoring the future and past

But to realize that their voices are meant to complement and not dominate

This moment in which we live, this time where we love

And for the moment we can dance and celebrate and embrace

The life that we know and the gift of each passing moment

Neil White, 2014

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