Lose it – a meditation

by Martin Wroe

It is not easy to lose your life
Without becoming dead
But it is still worth trying
In order to really find your self

It is not easy to discover that there is no such thing as an individual
But it is worth the effort
To finally find yourself in others

It is not easy to accept that none of us really exists
Except when we exist for each other
But why live only for your self when you might as well be dead

It is not impossible to gain a whole world
In the breathless chase for everything
But what can you do with a world
If you lost your soul in getting it

It is not easy to believe that you cannot buy your life or own your life
That the more of it you consume, the more alive you will feel
Because this is the ocean we swim in, the shimmering liquid
mirage our evolutionary pilgrimage has adapted us to
And coming up for air might drown us

It is not easy to realise 'ubuntu'
That 'I am because you are', that unless you are, I am not
But unless we do and until we can
Maybe none of us will really ever be

It is not easy to follow a call instead of a career
(If they do not overlap)
But it is the pearl of great price to find your heart
In tune with the universe

It is not easy to lose your life
Without becoming dead
It is not easy to lose your life
But it is the only way to find it