Meditation

The road your self must journey on

lies in polishing the mirror of your heart.

- Sanai, tr. David Pendlebury

But if I hold my mirror to the sun,

I can’t pretend the two of these are one

and same: although the image of the sun

is in the mirror, it is not the sun

itself; likewise the mirror itself is one

thing and the image is another. One

may never know a thing about the sun

and still reflect its light, just as the sun

may shine its rays of light on everyone

but never be diminished. I am one

who looks through cloudy skies, and I am one

whose eyes are sometimes clouded, so the sun

and what I would perceive are not the same;

whatever else, the sun is not to blame.