Circumscribed: The Drive Home

A colleague
Gave me a ride
Home from work
One night.

Exhausted
From sleeping badly lately,
Aching, sciatica
And back pain,

Feeling alienated,
Separate,
Cut off from
Everything,

Told myself to
Look at this
And see
What it was like,

To just
Be with this,
See if I
Could accept,

This misery
And blindness,
Being with this,
And I did.

Present for
Entanglement,
The illusion of
A disconnect,

But connected
With this experience,
Open to the moment
Such as it was:
Unpleasant yet remarkable.