Bliss Within
by Odin Roark

The woods
Your cabin
Your dog
Your significant other

All else in momentary exile

Back there
Where roads go nowhere
Save the insatiable feeding trough
Where gluttonous appetites of fear
Unknowingly eat upon themselves

Where traveling Monday through Friday
Preparing the day’s ever-raging strategy
Anxiously psyching up the all consuming habit
To vent upon
The system
Your mortgage
Your pet
Your domestic confinement
Is but a consuming habit

But now you luxuriate
Your Fido at your feet
Your partner at your side
Both of placid expression
Without animation
Without fear
Without…

Suddenly
Subtle sounds of a
Bucolic woodland paradise
Bristle with their own voracious needs
Nature’s balancing feat
Catching the seasonal winds of contrast
Preparing the now
For what is coming
Creation’s epiphany

Mind‘s chaos is awakened
That back there
Anticipation
Anxiety
Change
Remind you
Beneath the protection
Of woodland cover
Your flickering lit lamp
Isn’t bright enough
To keep reality’s ever changing shadows
At bay
That anywhere is everywhere

Fortunately

Those centered
Discover
An inner light
Void of shadowy distractions
Immune to attachments

The bliss within