Perspective

There is 

     Sitting 

In the garden

There is 

     Listening -

- Time of 

     Year -

Sounds of birds -

     Sound of distant 

          Road -

It's a new year 

     Tonight !!

This year 

       I don't feel 

          So

     Depressed

          About

          It - ? - 

Partly,

          It's you -

     The Mad

          Professor,

     The Mad

          Scientist,

 - my dear -

Partly it's been

     Counseling -

And then 

     There was

          That

Last 

     Samadhi

Offering a new 

     Perspective -

On

     Ego

          Mind . . .

Organizing Heaven

New phone 

New buttons 

Remember old 

     Password

( yeah, right) 

Look up old password

Download new app. 

Whatever happened to 

     Paper and 

          Pencils 

With no buttons 

And no 

Passwords 

The world is getting 

Together 

As we all look at little screens 

And talk to each other 

Instantaneously 

Across oceans

     With the speed of 

     Light 

Maybe we can share 

     The light 

Those of us who believe 

That it is better to talk 

Than 

     To fight 

No one in my mother's 

     Generation 

Would have 

Believed 

     It true

She used to talk about how 

Airplanes and cars and telephones

And tv 

Had been invented in her lifetime

We may all count our blessings 

That she was never quite able 

To tell the world 

What to do. 

Because -

I am sure she 

Would have 

And even more surprising -

The fact that she felt 

She had a right to -

And knew 

Better than 

All the rest of us 

May she rest in peace 

For I know she has a big 

     Job to do 

-organizing heaven !

Conviction

Look back 

Look within 

All the silliness 

     Of this world 

Will keep on 

      Spinning 

I'm sure 

    Of that 

Of that 

     I am convinced