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Stillness
Elusively hides
In the cracks and crevices
Lining the basin
Of my mind’s boundless rim

Resting in the center
I calmly watch my thoughts
Float away from me
Like streams

Some flow as water
Gently nurturing the ground
Others rise, tangled together,
Coming apart in the open space above
Formulating like starling murmurations
Gracefully existing

I watch them pass on
Into what other quadrants
Will have them
And gradually
Without effort
The stillness emerges
And everything
Is going to be alright
Just being
As it is

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