nine::one

Be not afraid of being yourself.
There is no greater fear,
and no more unnecessary scare.
Fooling your Self.
Ill at ease, unaware.
I tell myself this because I have not yet learned,
but I have learned that I do not know
tranquility.
With myself or with others
we are not yet all together,
and we are not ourselves.
We don't use our hands,
nor our minds,
the day does its thinking for us,
and we are simply here,
but not so simply, for we complicate
all those things not complicated.
Life is not complicated.
Life as it was to be,
but now as it is, it is not.
I admit I am not all here right now.
I have been in the presence of others,
and this was a good thing.
I am running over,
as I planned.
Yet, part of that which needed to leave
has gone away,
and I am more here than I was.
And I certainly am not afraid.

(1 Thessalonians 4:9-11, Psalm 98, Matthew 25:14-30)