May 6, 2015

VISION CENTER

All of us are looking and searching

          for a vision center,

          for the answer

          to the question

          of the meaning of our lives.

So we go to temples,

          universities,

          psychiatrists,

          astrologers,

          book stores,

          buying fads,

          trying movements,

          looking for answers

          to our quest,

          looking for the Way,

          the Truth and the Life.

Some of us think the center is

          Washington, Moscow or Beijing,

          Mecca, Rome or Jerusalem,

          Paris, Hollywood or New York City,

          always searching

          for the center of life,

          fashion, style, money,

          politics, power, dance,

          forgetting that the veil

          of the temple

          has been cut in two,

          forgetting that the kingdom

          of God is within.

Some of us stop along the highway

          at those buildings marked,

          “Adult Books and Movies,”

          “For Mature Audiences Only,”

          and only years later

          come out wondering

          what maturity

          and being an adult

          is all about.

All of us then are tiny ships

          making for harbors

          in the night,

          leaving at dawn and

          launching out into the deep,

          lowering our nets

          for a catch,

          for the Center.

All of us keep looking.

          Wise men and women,

          following the star,

          journeying towards

          the Center of the Universe.