#contentment

There is not enough drama you say Life is boring as a stone going gray With just not enough events or incidents To boost either energy or confidence

Too many days pass by unremarkably In lazy languor or hazy blurriness Peace seems to rain down equably Along with ample doses of happiness

John Masefield

Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying;

My dog and I are old, too old for roving.

Man, whose young passion sets the spindrift flying,

Is soon too lame to march, too cold for loving.

I take the book and gather to the fire,

Turning old yellow leaves; minute by minute

The clock ticks to my heart. A withered wire,

Moves a thin ghost of music in the spinet.

I cannot sail your seas, I cannot wander

Your cornland, nor your hill-land, nor your valleys

Ever again, nor share the battle yonder

Where the young knight the broken squadron rallies.

Only stay quiet while my mind remembers

The beauty of fire from the beauty of embers.

Beauty, have pity! for the strong have power,

The rich their wealth, the beautiful their grace,

Summer of man its sunlight and its flower,

Spring-time of man all April in a face.

Only, as in the jostling in the Strand,

Where the mob thrusts or loiters or is loud,

The beggar with the saucer in his hand

Asks only a penny from the passing crowd,

So, from this glittering world with all its fashion,

Its fire, and play of men, its stir, its march,

Let me have wisdom, Beauty, wisdom and passion,

Bread to the soul, rain where the summers parch.

Give me but these, and, though the darkness close,

I am Content – affirmation for inner and outer peace

Contentment, balance and peace to all. The lightness of being in the present moment beyond thought. Becoming the peace and balance that imitates the peace and balance of the universe.