Absent

This perfect moment

Awaits on us

Asking us to open our heart

In the midst of a breath

To taste the feel of air on skin

Tingling each pore awake

To life’s desiring

And yet so often

We close our minds

To this instant of time

Rich with possibility and presence

Worries cloud our troubled mind

As we withdraw our senses

To a numb and frozen place within

At others

We are absent

No longer a soul in a body

Just a thought floating through space

Or a cloud undone by the rain

Disappearing and dissolving

In that naked instant

Falling asleep

In the midst of a miraculous moment of possibility

That offered us

Nothing less than

Everything