breath

For just a second...
No kidding or spiritual fiddle-faddle for a moment...
Setting relief and improvement aside (gently, very gently)...
And without any hope for the universal solvent or perfect peace...
Where alpha and omega cannot enter...

Just for a serious second...
Clearer than distilled water...
Where bliss and despair find no footing...
And the case is closed...

Enter the breath
And the universe is born
Depart with the expiration
Gone forever.

What fear could be relevant
Or rejoicing make sense.
No one cares about the breath --
They breathe or they don't.

And yet just for a serious second...
There it was...
All the time...
No confusion at all...
Nor livening joy...

The universe is born on this breath
And dies as well...
What else is possible?
Let things be...
Join the dance...
And breathe without a backward glance.