POETRY

Chasing Thoughts In The Morning

The journey of a naturist Buddhist — 19

Chasing thoughts — image created using Fotor AI

Waking up
putting the coffee on
sitting in a comfortable chair
with mug in hand
the mind races
travelling over years
lived and unlived
over continents
visited and non-existent
through relationships
and of what might have been
or might someday be.

Warming up enough t
o emerge from beneath a cover
risking goose bumps
and the occasional shiver
with a mind still racing
through a universe
that is all illusion.

Tell that to the mind
as it heads off
on another tangent
as the heart looks for
love in dark places.

Tell that to my soul
that desperately
hopes for meaning.