.
The world-weariness
that can often characterise
a long and challenging life,
feeling like the chains
of Marley’s ghost,
is washed clean away
in an instant of clear-seeing.
.
When the filter of memory
is lifted, even briefly,
a brave new world is uncovered.
It has always been here,
but the varnish of many years
discoloured its technicolour brilliance
down into a dark, smoke-stained brown.
.
The wafting aroma of gentle despair
is exchanged for astonishment.
The burden of history
and the sense of a wounded self
are rinsed away by pristine Presence.
Wonder is born at the realisation,
You are brand new in every moment.