Life is a Meditation
Where is everybody going?
What is all this running around and accumulating,
What does it all signify?
Your worth, your importance, how
Competent at living life we are.
Busy, Busy, Busy
Hurry, hurry, hurry,
Do, Do, Do
Really how did we end up here
Believing this was the Way.
Who set the structure and why
Oh I don’t want to know really
I just want off, no more pushing, no more pulling, no more reaching
Done, Done, Done.
Living on moments, peace, love
Ohhh t’is sweet.
Sweetest thing I have ever known.
Little Lori, sitting in a flower patch, watching the bumble bees
Fill their senses with sweet
Happily buzzing about
They won’t hurt me if I don’t hurt them
Together we live in harmony
My life being a meditation.
T’is sweet, and bittersweet.
~Lori Ellis-McKinney (2013)