Thinking Openly

by Loretta Moore

I was in a capsule of innocence and willingness…

It was a period of the undisclosed future,

before the schisms and failure, waiting-

I now find myself at those locations,

having traveled to those paths.

Curiously, nothing warns of life’s true

difficulties ahead, the past holds a re-

collection of innocent light, glimpses inside

that timid horizon. Wistful and yearning and

sorrow-filled, I turn to mystery in a

bold atmosphere prepared to hurl at pleasure,

to instances recessed in my prior joyous

time.

The indefinable adversarial force idles, while

I appeal to the disrespectful goal present in living to STOP!

Take me to a superior moment, a realm of

superb reason, from this place trapping hollowness…

I’ll put my arms snugly around peace and

truth, a grain in the wilderness of life.