“even on back roads
I find I have velocity
and direction
where
I have come from
I’m not quite sure
where I am going
I don’t much care
the sign says Nirvana
I’m not there though
I only know
I am somewhere south of there
filled with this feeling
and aware of it
strange
how I keep leaving behind
the very thing
I am looking for
but then life is for living
time is a spiral
and every road
the road home”
Ric Masten (1929 – 2008), Unitarian Universalist minister and poet
Chorlton Unitarians 