Chaotic Order

Finding order in chaos

is a bit cliche, yes?

Yet our lives are defined

by chaotic order.

Moments strung together

by nothing more

than the fact that

we are present.

Thoughts in our heads

and

stimuli to all of our senses.

Color, light, shadow,

patterns, words, phrases,

whispers, tunes, shouts,

exclamations, interrogatives,

declarations, complaints, praise,

whether faint or otherwise.

The links from one moment

to the next

are less tenuous

than we care to admit.

Keeping the Center

Surrounded by

shards and shreds

of life and memory

we must keep at our center

the Shema:

Shema, Yisrael;

Adonai Eloheinu,

Adonai Echad.

Hear, O Israel,

the LORD our God,

the LORD is One.