Purring Centre

I ran out of love

½ way through baking

and the recipe said

I could substitute wine

or fear

or wonder

or any old adrenalin buzzer

but I didn’t think it would taste right

love’s got that tang to it, ya know?

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I’m sitting here at the comp

with a hole in my head

right in the middle of my brain

where I purr like a pussy cat

where peace reigns supreme

and this quiet, this awesome silence

defines me and possesses me.

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I am so Om, So Ham

So I am that I am and God creates me eternally

along with the rest of it.

I am the Lord’s heartbeat and he is my soul.

Dancing in the immaculate centre

the universal banged-out pinpoint

And yet this stillness in my head

this undefinable calm

rocks me and slows me

like a baby girl

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I don’t know me

I don’t think I ever did

and I still don’t know

what I want to be when I grow up.