I Sit Too!

Here is a poem by a Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa that describes my state of mind, captured in two earlier posts Two Months Later and This Ain't No Switzerland, so aptly and succinctly. 

That this state is but a state of mind, I am acutely aware of. That all one needs is a little peek beyond the corners of heaven to find hell, that too I am acutely aware of. But for now, I sit. Enchanted. 

I Sit

One afternoon with the sky covered in thin clouds

I sit on a sofa

like a shelled clam

There are things I must tend to

but I do nothing

simply sitting enchanted

Those that are beautiful are beautiful

Even those that are ugly

somehow look beautiful

Simply being here is

wondrous

I become something other than myself

I stand up to

drink a sip of water

water is also wondrous

.

by Shuntaro Tanikawa

from minimal

publisher, Shichosha, Tokyo, 2002