The Discomfort Of Choice

Leaving behind what we have outgrown is often painful,
 whether what we exit from is a relationship or a situation.
But think on this before clinging to the reluctance to change:
in the longer run our exit may improve the lives of others
and advance how we see ourselves in relation
to our new neighbours, in our new neighbourhood.  

 

Sunday Sermon

Whether your neighbour
is your enemy, your friend
or somebody you can't imagine
wanting to know who they are
and what they are like at home
in a thousand years,
assuming you could imagine
that degree of longevity,
the quality of neighbourliness remains fixed.

The individual choice we have left,
is the distance that we keep from it.

Unimportantly Yours

I am not a nurse, not a postman,
nor any other vital profession
that requires special protection
and yet like many others
I will do what there is to do
in this present spontaneous quiet
to work out how to be neighbour
at the distance I have to be
from those around me.