A Poem

I just read this poem, written by a retiring English professor at St. Mary's College. I hope it brings you as much calm as it does me.

The Economy of Days

To want, to have, to do--
the verbs I live
in perpetual unrest.

How difficult to be--
to embrace the homely
details of my days

to open my heart
to the flow
of this amphibious life,

to trust in the motion toward
as a fish trusts
the river at its gills,

to trust in this journey,
to swim,
to be still.


--Michael S. Glaser