Trying To Be Zen Poem by e.e. wilholt

is difficult when I’m consumed
with life’s preoccupations and
being Zen is something left undone
until I get the time like
other things I never seem
to have the time to do

being mindful in the moment is
the answer but the problem is
a wandering mind that seems to
want to be in any other where or when
than in the here and now

so I must train my
inner voice
to keep a running
exhortation with a mantra

BE HERE NOW

(August 2008)