THE MUSE

Recently, Willow over at Willow Manor started a new blog titled Magpie Tales. You can see it in my sidebar. She invited those of us who might be interested in writing poetry or fiction to join her blog and she would provide the muse. Today's muse is this photo below. I think this sounds like a bunch of fun and I can't wait to see what other people write about "The Muse". Here goes:

IN THE MIDDLE WAY

I stand here in the middle.

In the middle way there is no reference point.

You have found my soft spot:

The discovery of Bodhichitta.

I have a tenderness for life.

A noble awakened heart---

I take it all in.

This pain---

This armor that imprisons me.

Am I willing to give everything away?

If not, I cannot experience the world

Fully.

Full---

Unfathomable---

A prison.

Separate from the whole.

In the middle way there is no reference point.

I take in pain.

I (take)

In pain.

With tenderness

For life

I

Send

Out

Pleasure.