Now And Zen And The Continuum by Oonah V. Joslin

Utagawa Hiroshige, Taiko Bridge, Meguro, on a Snowy Evening, 1857. Woodblock print. Public domain.

Were I blessed with nowness
I could
live in the moment
live in each moment of
minute
content,
conduct each moment’s business,
appropriate to each moment’s strength,
turn on the moment,
pivotal;
present.
Could I present no object in the way of now,
subject no subject to the scrutiny
of past or future,
that would be being.
That would be blessed content.
For as I worry either side of each event,
life passes by
’til all my nows
are spent.