Second Cup - I

Coconut chocolate flapjack
Americano - Black - Regular
One for the diabetes
One for the cure

Then, in walk the police
Uniform - Cap - Automatic rifle
One for the photograph
One for the terrorist

Do they get special treatment
Do - They - Have - To - Pay
One for the Englishman
One for the Muslim

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Outerness

Between circle and square
Between light and dark
Between love and loss
Between apart and together

Words on a page
Posted as a letter

Between black and white
Between hard and soft
Between near and far
Between apart and together

Words as a thought
Posted as a wish

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Innerness

Instinctive reactions
Fuelled from who knows where
Avoided interactions
Also fuelled from there

A patch of grass
In the midday sun
Miles drives by
On his invalid scooter

His story has been a gift
To our small Dharma Family
If ever I feel hurt
I will try to let it diminish

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Don’t Begin

To go there
Today, as a memory
To feel the rusted church gate
Slowly open
To gently lay the flowers
To quietly say the prayers
To have loved is to have known

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Don’t End

I hear a story
Of a lost unborn child
I once was taken to the grave
Of a lost unborn child
Nothing is stolen
Nothing is given
To have loved is to have known

To have shared
Was an honour
Such privilege
May not now be discarded
No one is innocent
No one is guilty
To have loved is to have known

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