The Return

Tomorrow 

I go -

I return to the life 

I live 

With 

None of my problems solved 

And 

Mail piled up behind 

The door 

I have a few new 

Resolutions

Like 

Don't let it get 

     To me 

Sit and contemplate

     Just 

     Because

Remember what is 

Really important 

And don't 

Let others distract me from 

My life's great purpose 

Which is 

To sit 

And contemplate

The truely great questions 

Which transcend

Even language 

And mentation

Those questions which become 

Oneness

And therefore 

Disappear 

All together

Astounding!

I have come here 

To discover the 

Infinite 

I valiantly begin 

And I am on the doorstep of 

Possible enlightenment 

When

I am told to

Leave 

This shrine -

Which is Dedicated to 

Meditation -

Because 

There will be a class 

Now -

About 

Meditation . . .

I arise 

And stumble out 

The world spinning 

Around me 

From my 

Quick retreat -

My heart pounding 

From the sudden effort 

Of arising from a zero point

This place is so 

Like that 

So many things so 

Misunderstood 

I am not even 

Astounded

Anymore