Stay Here

 Nanne Nyander - Poems and Paintings

Emptiness, silence,

I am.

I’m out of reach of the movement of the mind.

O this trickery mind.

I salvage the silence within me 

before it gets gulped up by the noisy mind, 

the destroying force within me.

The force that does everything in its power

to distract me from what I am,

from my true identity.

I just need to stay here,

I just need to be.

I don’t want to go to war with my thoughts. 

They are slippery, and demanding of my attention,

like an enemy within.

An enemy that I hardly notice until it’s too late. 

Sleep no more,

it’s time to be vigilant.

It’s time to wake up.

-Nanne Nyander "The Struggle of Going Nowhere"