A Text to a Friend of 50 Years

Thank you
For the good reason
to start meditating again; to join you.

I am managing
at least
a formal evening meditation.

I need to reestablish the process of stopping, breathing, stilling, and centering.

My ego-mind is
working me hard
thinking it knows all the answers
and so
rebelling against any whiff of control.

So choices,
my will to use my heart,
which seems to be 
my way to surrender
to something that feels like knowing.

This assumes I am making some kind of use of an exploration of the unknowable.