Here

If you are reading
this,
you are AWARE of
this word.
The one right

HERE.

That Awareness
is where
your Soul abides,
at least for
a moment,
until that moment
is taken hostage
by the recollection
that you’re
seventy-two
and you still haven’t
finished your
novel,
and that young guy
in the paper
just published his
tenth.

Go back

HERE.

Just for a moment,
until you’re kidnapped
by guilt
that your tax return
is past due.

Go back

HERE.

It’s your
Interface with
The Mystery,

where your
citizenship lies,
where nobody is
the least bit interested in
your age,

where the words for
a thousand novels
are smiling
seductively
at You.

Go back

HERE.

(Photo by Flavia Gava; UnSplash)