THE ONE THING

“Poetry is the Cosmos awakened to itself” David Hinton, ‘Awakened Cosmos’

I am cast aside

to left and right

trying to find the

One Thing.

I am cast aside

to left and right

trying to find the

One Ideology.

But in being

cast aside, I lose

the Path.

(I analyse this wandering

I de-con-struct it

only to find, if

I am awakened that

the one doing

the critiquing,

is the wanderer who

knows nothing in

their unconscious state).

I am cast aside

to left and right

not knowing that this

is a state of unknowing.

(Best not to plan your future commitments then, until you Know who you are and the One Thing you are here to do).

“Find the One Thing you are supposed to do, and then do it.”

Thomas Merton (paraphrase)

Geoff Hall