Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~Awakening (posted by Susan)
Awakening is more than waking after sleep, it involves coming to a realization that is personally transforming. It may be rational, but more often the path is visceral, emotional or spiritual.
Have you had an awakening?
Where is one needed?
“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”
― P.D. Ouspensky
Each time I am reminded
of mortality, I awaken.
Today we found ourselves
in a lawyer’s office, ushered
into a room complete with dark
polished conference room table
laden with candy. We were offered
something to drink. I was con-
centrating on drinking in my
life. The lawyer was drawing
of our will. The phrasing
involved: if you pre-decease
him, power of attorney, health
care proxy, trust, and on
and on. I do not know
if I want to die now; it’s all
so complicated.
Those first two lines are so true.
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Thanks, Revived!
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Oh yes, complicated it is. Definitely a reminder of mortality.
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Makes you feel tied in knots.
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Hahaha! There is mortality and then there is the business of mortality. Sigh. Awareness of both leads to awakening. This may be my new favorite of your poems.
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Thanks so much, Susan!
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Let us all live in the present …….
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I do try!
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Mortality is by all means fragile and fleeting .. it reminds us to make the most of the time we have left here in the world ❤️
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Absolutely.
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Complicated. Yes, life is. And so is death.
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Thanks, MMT.
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