new years present

auspicious felicitations
on the observance of the commencement
of the next arbitrary segment
of the cluttered string
of temporal considerations

appended to the
weighted and mythic,

human perception of the present.

which is to infer,
that was then,

(which isn't),

and this is all that is.

but in this space,
with its limitless potential
for placing bounded things,

where a presence of awareness
finds awareness of the ever present,

a magical possibility resides.

for notwithstanding
distracting illusions and reinforcing delusions,

circumventing conventions and deflections and denials,

the intrusion of insecurities and ricocheting ramifications,

and the fraying disruption of the noise, noise, noise,

it is ever thus:

to try and stay focused on,

endeavour to illuminate,

and fill with living love,

the glimpse that glimmers future,

the treasure beyond measure,

the key that opens everything,

the ever present now.

- Evan Hawthorn, the 30^th of December, 2016