For Just This Moment

For just this moment: 

for just this moment, and there's our faith, our wished for haven - right now, we have what's present, we have only what our worlds been given. Nothing more can truly be considered, our reality is always, only for this very moment. 

this is what's allowed, whatever appears now is ours for however long its stay. It's all we ever have to deal with, and all we really have to cherish. Everything else is the abstract stuff of memories and dreams of what may be. Our moment is right now.

yet this isn't a call for mindfulness, it's not about directing our attention - it's simply a reminder, a pointer to what's present, and ours to truly know. We only have this moment, and it's changing, in motion even as these words appear. What we know is mystery, that with every instant another world is given from every previous world before, and even if similar in appearance there is always subtle change. Nothing belongs forever. 

so for just this moment, however swift it goes - this is what the world offers. It's ours, but only in motion, not meant to ours to grasp. For just this moment we have our joy, our memories, and sorrow too. Nothing is excluded - this is where we celebrate life through all that's given, this is where suffer our every loss, all that feels taken and cause for us to mourn. 

for just this moment - everything's allowed. 

~

Peace, Eric