Insight

Insight

To know who I am I sit and wait.
Nothing to do but sense the silent buzz
of the living body as dynamic delight,
a vibrant effervescence and pizzazz
inside and out. I sparkle, zing and fizz
and all that’s here is potency and might.
Thoughts abate yet consciousness remains,
that spirit seer in whom it all unfolds;
this shimmering, she created, she sustains.
Becoming the seen, in body form she moulds
her energy as clay, and just as easily dissolves
it all back to herself again.
All in a flash I am that consciousness
Moment to moment unfolding the universe.

The beach at sunset

The beach at sunset

We sat down together on the sea wall, you and I.

Birds flew, boats sailed, homeward, purposefully,

as an orange-red blush emblazoned all the sky,

and the sun’s gold disk slipped into the sea.

We sat down, separate, as a me and you,

and watched beach revellers packing up their day,

dogs walking their people, joggers pounding through,

together, watching, with nothing much to say.

Yet as the glorious sunset blush took hold,

and the sky and sea were tinted in turquoise,

the sense of I, you, them and that dissolved,

replaced by one, in perfect equipoise.

Then I and you returned, and all that’s left is this

memory, yearning and an aftertaste of bliss.

© Tina Shettigara 2015