Settle Like Sediment Poem by Suzanne Hayasaki

Settle Like Sediment



I need to let my heart rest
Let the devastation settle
Let my mind find a quiet state
To contemplate this pain.

There are no answers.
There is no end.
There is no hope to be found
In the darkness that surrounds me.

Yet here I must sit.
Here I must wait.
Here I must find myself
In the wreckage of my identity.

I am not American.
I am not a woman.
I am not even human.
I am and I am not.

There is a formlessness of existence
In which all moves
All breathes
All shifts
All sees.

When I cease to define myself,
To align myself with one thing
To distance myself from another,
I become one
Again.

I remember
As I forget
Myself.

Sunday, November 13, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: meditation,oneness,patience,peace
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Suzanne Hayasaki

Suzanne Hayasaki

Menomonee Falls, WI, USA
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