It’s a small world?

 

‘It’s a small world’, I’ve often been told
It’s not what I’ve found, as I grow old and bold;
the world keeps opening, fold after fold
giving me treasures more precious than gold.

Yes it’s a small world
if I build a close wall,
keep face down and crouch
fail to see the sprawl.

If life throws us together
when we had been so far
it’s the thousand steps we took
the doors we kept ajar.

It’s a huge world to search
when I lose something held dear,
I meet a kindred spirit
and find yet one more sphere.

My mind is a world, an infinite space
of countless beings and thoughts to embrace
scaling mysteries I come face to face
with courage, compassion, joy and grace.

 

 March 2021