BEGINNING 3. All is Impermanent

BEGINNING

3. ALL IS IMPERMANENT

Just back

From 10 day meditation retreat;

Silence, calm, Buddhist teaching:

“All is impermanent”

When Clara asks me

“Dad, can you look at my neck,

Tell me what these lumps are?”

Look, feel,

Not anything I recognize

Tiny voice whispers inside

“Strange lumps = cancer.”

I dismiss this ridiculous notion.

“I don’t know Clara,

I’ll ask your mum.”

Next day Jill and Clara go to hospital,

I get a call

“We need to talk to the doctor, with you there.”

Get in car, drive

Horrible sinking dread.

All is impermanent.

2009