Motionless and shallow

Motionless and shallow                                                                          
 
Deep in quicksand and the first thing to do
is to calm myself, stop flailing about;
 
stretch out motionless and shallow on the surface,
all the while praying fervently for help.
 
Meher Baba said, “Don’t worry, be happy”,
not because He especially wished His lovers
 
to be comfortable and complacent
but because worry is always about Illusion.
 
(No one worries about Reality.)
Our concerns, ever for the future,
 
are for mortality, vulnerability, pride,
pain and suffering, all of which,
 
according to Meher Baba,
do not, in Reality, exist.
 
O child of God, stretch out (prayerfully), motionless
and shallow, on the treacherous surface of the great Illusion.