My midday garden meditation
Is quietly interrupted
The iPad has overheated
It needs to cool down before I can carry on
The screen says Emergency, with exclamation mark
Though I think that is a slight exaggeration
Indeed, what it actually means
Is that for a short while
I meditated without any spoken word guidance
Then I took up my paper notebook and pencil
To write out these few words
Words for my own personal record of the silence
Indeed a record, of my personal reaction
To the Emergency, which of course
Had been of my own making
For it was I who placed the iPad on the seat
In the direct glare of the extreme heat
Of the sun which we are witnessing at the moment
