Image

Sitting in a
Religious group
Listening to the prayers,
I saw myself as an
Image in a dark
Mirror.
I am as ever
At a distance observing
Myself as part of what transpires,
Calmly rational even at my own
Expense as I am never as
Content as those who
Simply partake with
No other thought
But what they
Are about
At the
Moment,
They live in the
Moment to the fullest
Which excludes my
Image in a dark
Mirror seeing
Myself as
Present
But
Unaccounted
For amid my
Friends,
And
Maybe even
When only
Two are
Here
And I am
In part somewhere
Else leaving only
A ripple on the
Pond
Though I
Have
Nothing
To hide or
Even any second
Thoughts about
The rightness
Of the time
I am in or
Warmth
I feel
But
Simply
Unable to
Stop seeing
Events at a
Distance.
I wonder if
Narcissus saw
His fall into
The water
As a way
To live
In the
Moment.