You are not..

 

You

are not who 

you think 

you are

You 

and thinking

are not but

you appear

to be 

You

aspects..

 

Aspects

of life are

fleeting appearances

which are already

but may seem

to be now and

perhaps saved for

an identification~

an aspect

pretending

freedom of emptiness..

 

It doesn’t need 

to be figured out

figuring reinforces

the story's seeming

separation and hides

another story of

empty freedom

What doesn't change..

 

appearances

can suggest change

or the changeless

appearing to

change

maybe a shift

of perspective

out of the blue

appearances

never seem static

cannot be pinned

or defined

or mapped

nothing displays

as dancing

appearances 

the bridge..

 

the bridge

seems the 

connection

of this to that

and the bridge 

not to be denied

hides with appearances

of this and that

propensity

 

propensity

is to perceive 

as conditioned

fixing yesterday's

problems

freedom

from conditioning

is not rejecting

the conditioning

bird chirping

arising 

as the walker's

welcome of spring

The news is old..and noticing..

 

The news

Is old news

Already

The news is

And isn't

Lives and dies

Simultaneously

The news cycle

An empty story

presence

and the noticing

perhaps a grain of sand

or a spent banana peel

or the noticing itself

presenting as

presence

perspectives

are common for

everyone

the appearance of

separation prevails

regardless of lenses

perceiving

"I agree"

usually a pleasing

retort for each

end of a conversation

"I disagree"

another possibility

maybe not as pleasing

two appearances of

conversations which

smoke in the fires

of no-other