Meditation Moment

How has the pain of the past distracted you from willingness to move forward and change in the present?

Regret is vain.

Then do not grieve for what you would efface,

The sudden failure of the past, the pain

Of its unwilling change, and the disgrace.

Leave innocence,

And modify your nature by the grief

Which poses to the will indifference

That no desire is permanent in sense.

Take leave of me. What recompense, or pity, or deceit

Can cure, or what assumed serenity

Conceal the mortal loss which we repeat?

The mind will change, and change shall be relief.

-Edgar Bowers, “Amor Vincit Omnia”