She was sitting in the corner
and I never even saw her
until she coughed and
then I saw her and
noticed her beauty.
The last thing to discover water
would be a fish, Confucious said
because it is so pervasive
that it is invisible.
What keeps us from seeing
what we see
when we see it,
I ask my students
Our Higher Power is
ever present
but like the woman in the corner
or the fish in the bowl
remains unseen until
she clears her throat
or someone tries to remove us
from the water
or we are decentered
in our lives
and can see what we could not see
and hear what we could not hear
May we have senses that can be
aware of your presence without
you having to clear your throat
to get us to notice you