January 1, 2011

• 1/1/11

  Just wanted to write that date once. Going to borrow from myself today (would that be autoplagiarism?)

  New Year’s Resolution

  I resolve
  To live this year
  And each one hence
  Inside that one
  Brief shining moment
  Where all was good
  All was joy
  All was love.
  Can you build your life
  Inside a moment?
  Can you stand breathless
  but resolute
  Upon the battlements of the sandcastle
  As high tide rushes in?
  Can you make your world
  Within the globe of the soap bubble
  As it wafts perilously on the summer breeze?
  The past without
  And the future within
  Is the eternal present.
  Here is no fear, no doubt;
  No loss, no pain, no death.
  Here is the life you always imagined
  Finally experienced
  In this one transcendent moment,
  Captured forever
  And gone in an instant
  Both at once.
  A fantasy you say?
  Are sandcastles and soap bubbles not real?
  And is not our mind’s resolve
  Far stronger than either?

   

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