The Deepest Bow
Old habits of mind
Want to box and label
What is seen,
Safely containing
All things, all experience,
In the known world.
But a new wind
Blows through the mind
Not looking for refuge from life.
Seeing beyond itself
Into the alive world
Of happenings and presences,
Mysterious and unfathomable.
So far beyond thought
That mind lies down
In the deepest bow possible
Dumbfounded and reverent.
Then rising again,
From its bow
In hopeful adoration
Only wanting to serve
What it doesn’t understand.
~ by Alice Gardner
