CS Sherin
October 17, 2018
What gracious time is this
when I walk through air on
earth and swim through water
under the sky? What grace
filled time is this
where I am sheltered every night
surrounded by six other beings who
wish and show me only love, who
stand by me no matter the weather
or time? What glorious synchronicities
are these that orchestrate order in spite of
chaos, beauty and kindness in spite of active
hatred, wild regenerative wellness in spite of
polluted toxic disease? What timeless peace within
is this that reverberates endlessly in the
midst of cacophonies of strife and unrest?
What beautiful mind-bending grace is this? –this
breath, this heart — the rhythm and song within
us? 
What is this glorious triumph of love that
travels beyond atrocities, that has no rival–
unmeasured goodness surviving here,
beyond the vision and grasp of all the
twisted distortions that destroy, erase, consume,
and assimilate. It is the great mystery of
ultimate reality beyond this, yet it is evidenced
through and through. Just as we give up hope,
just as the darkness enfolds, just as the distortions
distort yet more, the day after, the breath after that,
the morning after that, the week after that–woven
through everything, invisible yet ineffable,
indelible — Great presence endures — untraceable
even in the worst 1984 with treason.
CS Sherin, WildClover |WildClover.org 2018©
