Who Is This Awareness

Who is this awareness you seem to be

who is this wandering wonderer

who seldom asks enough

and takes too little

of the plenty

that lays

within

thinking

that somehow

there is plenty without

and yet you are nothing of substance

that cannot change as quickly as the wind

though you may see this truth you turn away

again and again until the end of your chapter

when the closing thought comes too late

the printing is already done too soon

or so you seem to love to know

and convince yourself again

in the morning mirror

where you hate

some thing

in you

but

I

do

love

this wonder

who you surely are

this sweet treasure that lays

yet undiscovered beyond your reach

only because you will not believe what you know

only because you will not touch what lays

already within your open hand

that you keep closed

around this gem

that I call

you

♥

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Photo: Chris Willis