Mindfulness

When you wake up
Ask yourself what it is that is waking,
When you brush your teeth
Ask what it is that is brushing,
As you stare into the cosmic mirror
What is being reflected
At you is at you,
Not you or for you just at you,
Smile at it, try to touch it,
You can’t,

When you walk out to feed the horse
Pause for a moment,
What is being fed and what is feeding?
Listen to the morning owls calling to each other,
The coyotes howling,
The highway roar,
The stealth bomber overhead,
Take three breaths
They are all gone,
Within the space between
Inhale and exhale
They did not exist,
Then or now,

Emptiness is never quiet,
Quietude is never empty,
The space between two words
Creates them,
Like the distance between two electrons
Who know each other’s actions
Without knowing each other.