Loving What Is

The past is a trick usually
luring us away from the joy
power
excitement
or just plain old:
light sound breath body shape
of
now

now is
always
just what it is

the past
we can wish
were different

we will always lose
by that wish

we will always drain energy
from
Now

we will often destroy happiness
which is who
we really are

and yet we do it:
wish n want the past to be different

oh, well

we can be present to that wishing
and wanting
and just come back to now
and breathe
and be present
and let it go

not like a project,
the "letting it go" project

just like a turning to look at the sunset
instead of our silly smart
phone

shift the awareness from grinding
away at trying to change the unchangable
(the past)
to aware-ing our wish. want to change it
to
being present

to living experiencing
being alive

and how is
that

now
this now?

not the theoretical now

but the real one

yeah,
this one?