This is It ... Just This

This is ... Just a Bird Bath, Kailua, HI, February 2021, iPhone 11 Pro © Steven Crisp

 This Is It … Just This

This is it ...

What else could it be?

What else could there be?

Everything that’s ever happened 

Has brought us to just this moment

This instant in the unfolding

This timeless, spaceless, 

Wholly impersonal moment

Sorry, it’s nothing personal 😎

No you or me, separate from it

You know that to be fundamentally true

And yet we have such confusion

We think this is our unique, individual experience

Reading these words

Trying, perhaps in vain, to make sense of it

But that’s just an illusion, for us, for everyone

Who sees, anything more than

... Just This