SDI celebrates the Solstice with a poem from member John Pollard [Ontario, Canada]

On the Bridge of the Present Moment (at Chapin Mill):
Home

On one side of the bridge water flows away
With it floats away the past, all of life's successes and failures
Self views, judgments of others, all being carried away
Released, let go, surrendered, relinquished

On the other side of the bridge water comes cascading forward
Bringing with it (for now) the future, new successes, new failures
New self views, new judgments of others, all coming forward
To be experienced, but only for a while
Soon to flow under the bridge and also be carried away

But for now, on the bridge of the present moment
Attention is drawn upward through newly budding trees
To the vast unending expanse of sky above
Untroubled by the scudding clouds or honking geese

Consciousness standing on the bridge of the present moment
Breathing into the vastness, the blueness
Stretching up to the heights, the depths
Being drawn up into the limitless Sky
Falling into the arms of our radiant True Nature
Dissolving into the timelessness of All That Is
It feels so much like ... Home
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
 
                                           -- John Pollard, May 2011