Balancing Act

I am sure only of the immediate.
Nothing is solid beneath my feet.
Perhaps it never has been.
Always the observer
but never more so than now;
I am in between everything
watching listening waiting,
always waiting,
and then the moment is upon me
and I am startled unawares.

I nearly tumble off the brink
till something magical winks at me
and I am caught
in a painfree moment.

15 jan 1998