Saturday, November 30, 2019

It's All Perfect



We don’t ask the tree why it is where it is.
We may want it to be elsewhere, but we know
it is exactly where it needs to be.

We don’t say to the storm, why here and now,
if we understand it’s a part of a larger unfolding,
a symphony of being in time.

We don’t tell the river to change direction,
go back from whence it came. The water
simply flows to the ocean.

All arrive in the here and now playing their part
as perfectly as a rose at each stage of blooming
or the butterfly in each phase of its life cycle.

I am here. I am now. There is no other place,
no other way to be except this. All that arrives
in this moment is perfect exactly as it is.

© 2019 Joanne Young Elliott


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