This is a very poignant poem Gary, very deeply felt - thank you. I resonate for a couple of reasons and felt like connecting.

I resonate a lot with what you describe as the ‘void’ where creative flows unfold. I experience this as an open, still, yet active space; there is pausing, a waiting without expectations – an open canvas where expression can emerge in many forms included in words (e.g. written inquiry for me nowadays), body movement (e.g. dance and free style) and music creation (e.g. creating play-lists).

Also, I am blessed to be connected with a few people who are ‘recovering’ alcoholics/addicts and I remember him saying to me one day: “I feel so much love, just meditating, just being with this pain, it’s the first time I can fully be myself”. The last verse of your poem speaks to me about this - the potential to be freer in seeing oneself as who one truly is; seen one’s soul by tuning the steam of attention to the flow of one’s moment.

Blessings