Listening

What are you listening to, or for?

Some message, inclination, or maybe sign?

Are you open to receiving which requires

a pause, silence, and a limiting of distractions?

Is what you are hearing shouts and commands

of doing, or softer sounds of being?

Is there a pushing away, or a gentle coaxing

of come here, sit down for awhile?

Where are you tickled with joy, entreated

with awe, and pulsed with curiosity?

What is the opening? Can you feel it?

Perhaps as a breeze, or an aromatic like impression,

or maybe a flashed reflection of mirrored light.

The passing ring on the carousel of your life

must be reached for, but timing is important.

Is it now?

Or, maybe now?

Breathe in. Breathe out.

It is now.

    richard hammer

         7-21-16