The thoughtful mind

The thoughtful mind
 
Take no thought for the morrow,
advised Saint Matthew,
 
the apostle’s counsel being to dwell    
only in this one fearless moment.
 
The past – merely the wisp of a dream
within a dream within a dream
 
and tomorrow but a great imagining.
Only the now approaches
 
any sort of truth or utility, emerging
hot and fresh from God’s creation,
 
where the thoughtful mind,
(made of scraps and whimsies),
 
operates only as a hovering,
haunting, ineffectual ghost.
 
O child of God, where shall you find refuge?
Even the eternal now (per Meher) is an illusion.