June 25, 2024 – A

A raccoon has its business
and it goes about it every day
as best it can.

It has preferences but no opinions,
no agendas, no greed, no angst...
It just deals with what comes up
in each situation as it arises,
and lets that be that.

Every natural thing is that way.
Even me and you.
But we aspire to be more
than a bird in the air,
a fish in the sea.

We have plans. Ideas. Intentions.
Interests beyond doing what is called for,
day after day.

We invented addiction and denial.
And war.

And what's a war without nuclear weapons?

So we invented them, too.

For the lack of anything better to do.

A raccoon would have gone fishing.
Or taken a nap. 

I'm turning things over to
emptiness, stillness, silence
and my intrinsic intuition,
and letting them take it from here.

We all should have done it that way
from the start.