Nowhere Save Now Here

I cannot go anywhere that isn't - now here.

I cannot change anything that isn't - now here.

I cannot do anything that isn't - now here.

I am no "where" save - now here.

If I am here, do these choices make me happy?

If not, choose something else.

There is nowhere else to go.

Every choice takes me to this place.

And, this, my experience . . .

Is . . .

What brings me close to You.

I cannot desire, what, already, I do have.

I cannot expect, what, now, I know is here.

There is no separation

But this

my experience . . .

Now distracted.

Is now here, really, here?

Or am I somewhere else?

In my panic, I am

empty

incomplete.

My choices bring me back,

Not that I ever left,

But that experience that I felt before

Acknowledged and complete

it fell from my heart

and cracked

my life apart.

I will

To save me from myself

And know myself through You

As the energy of love made present

now here.

This is all You want

Only that the origin of my preceding thought

the sponsoring thought of all

to come from knowing You

and so I can be nowhere

save, with You,

now here

complete

at peace

in love.

-- Tom Keydel