Meditation and me, for Real Toads

At the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Laurie's word this week is "meditation" — a concept with which I've struggled for years, due to my body's inability to relax.

I'm thrilled Laurie added the photo That was Zen, This is Meow I e-mailed her, but I should have explained I got it via Facebook, after heaven-knows-how-many people shared it, but it originated with Samuel Greenberg at 

https://www.facebook.com/sun.gazing47

The art accompanying my submission for today's Word with Laurie also came from Samuel Greenberg, from his site at: www.sun-gazing.com

I can’t achieve a meditative state

because my muscles won’t cooperate

they won’t relax when asked to

they don’t relax when I sleep

I’m simply just too tense to contemplate

I go to the beach and lie on the sand

the ocean and sky are both very grand

but the sun burns my skin

and it makes me perspire

so I retreat once again to dry land

I go to the forest, sit 'neath a tree

no one here but Mother Nature and me

looking up through leafy lace

I think this must be the place

where I can relax, but it’s not to be

so I pay money to go to a spa

for a massage with zen oils, lah ti dah

I feel some relaxation

while the treatment’s going on

but when it stops I’m tense again, oh, bah

I must accept “acceptance is the way”

and that this tensed-up body’s really Kay

I know I shouldn’t hate it,

I have to learn to love it,

and, if I still can’t meditate, I’ll pray 

© Kay Davies, 2012

© Samuel Greenberg www.sun-gazing.com