Look
Look.
There will always be things
that take you away from what matters.
The dishwasher that breaks and the gutters
that need cleaning.
But they are not your life
unless you let them be
Your life is this moment you’re
reading this
Your life is the moment you wake up
and how do you feel?
Your LIFE is every moment in between
anything you have to DO
In the end
none of the doing matters
What matters
is how others feel with you
what matters
Is how much you’ve been able to appreciate
Being alive.
We get distracted by so many things
By many stories
But don’t we all sigh at a baby
Seeing that pure wonder
At my deathbed I doubt seriously I’ll think about my poems
Or my job
Or my business
Or my paintings
I think
I’ll think about love and you
I’ll think about air and light and movement
And how all my senses
Became me
Made me.
This lessens NONE
Of the doing
Let the doing be fun and instructive
Let the doing
Support what becomes me.
On my deathbed
I’ll say ‘look’
Here I am.