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Non-Effort

By G. Bluestone

The wind in the pines plays a subtle
Song, of which I have become
Effortlessly aware.
I did not compose it, I did not perform it;
Yet it simply is as it is.
Nor do I strain myself to be aware of it.
It just is as it has always been.

The music, strangely, is as bright as
My Self-lit interior.
And if I tried to compose it or
Perform it I could not do so.
And if I strained to become aware of it,
It would surely die and fade away.