Loving the Blending

Theme for March: Vastness

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

LOVING THE BLENDING
(about Bernice D., 61, Blessings, CT, USA)

When she turned 60,
she suddenly saw
that there are no separate ends -
no isolated stops
for this person or that,
for this activity or that,
since everything, it suddenly seemed,
was totally together,
entirely blended,
quietly cohesive,
and everlastingly flowing.
Her cares and worries
were not just hers,
she saw,
but the whole world's,
and her fear
was the same fear felt by
her millions of brothers and sisters.
She now felt, for sure,
that there was no finish for anything,
just an infinite flowing
and reshuffling and revising,
just Bernice and beautiful billions
of winds and skies and squirrels
and simple, astonishing people
blending 
and loving the blending.

And here’s my hard-working partner and wife Delycia, for whom the good work of life never ends …