New poem: "Awesome Responsibility"

 Awesome Responsibility

 “Poetry does our thinking for us,”

said Zen poet, Jane Hirshfield;

but so do our belief systems think

for us. Poetry does our thinking

when do not know where to go,

always searching, searching for the

way of what is to come, the path

to our true self, and how difficult

it is to let go of our belief systems

that do our thinking for us too—

religion, politics, fashion. Not

that we don’t want more freedom;

but because we cannot bear the

awesome responsibility of thinking

for ourselves.