Monday, November 28, 2011

off in the shallows


Of Tao & Facebook


the meditations within which I focus
each and every morning
are the closest I know to the fire beneath,
the light that some of us call God,
words which have permanence of meaning
as if written in stone,
distant from the virtual realities
which draw from us
so much of our time and our words,
Facebook and cell-phones and Twitter
connect us with each other
and entice us like candy,

I wonder how much we then swim in shallows
and fill our need for depth, for profundity, with quantity.

by Henry H. Walker
November 23, ’11

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