Why does
Nothing
Shock anymore?
As despair and exhilaration
Congeals,
What nameless expression
Stays on the face?
When worst fears come true,
Wildest dreams turn real,
When success and failure
Feels the same,
The heart,
Burning and frozen
Stony and melting
Has handled it all.
Neither the crest
Nor the trough,
Neither barbs
Nor silky words,
Nothing affects,
Yet everything is absorbed.
For the heart
Has expanded.
A being zen-like
Looking at the world,
With love that expands
With each living breath.
