Inertia
Long ago at a local Double Happiness
I opened a fortune cookie with this note,
“You’ll accomplish more if you start now.”
The message was and remained strangely
arresting. As I held the little note in my
two hands, I drifted back into a dream,
decades old. A sequence opened where
I was kneeling in a garden that was clearly
neglected. Immediately, I realized it was
my garden, the dream offered an awakening.
As awareness returned, turning to the note,
then to our table, I felt gifted. If the opposite
of loneliness is presence, we can all abandon
wishing. A begging bowl will often remain
empty. Danger lies in not stopping.
The inertia of what is not seen brings gravity.
“You’ll accomplish more if your start now.