Poem by Kumbi Mukaro- Published on 1 January 2016
Stillness
Happiness is not what I do
Happiness is not what I have
Happiness is not what’s happening around me
Happiness is not what I feel
Happiness is not what I see
Happiness isn’t even what I create
All these are but a mirage of a heart in journey
Happiness is what I am from this queenly soul that whispers my troubles to dust in the middle of the darkest night
Happiness is what I am
in the still before and after everything is done
Happiness is what I am
Irrevocably
Eternally
Constantly
Love, let me bear that
Let me bear to hold that depth of peace right here, right now in this kingdom: in this perfect magnificence of divinity
I am the very nature substance of the immutable golden dust of joy.
With open heart …
Sing me of the still