VII. Attention

VII. Attention

So attention returns again.

Not as suspicion toward everything.

Not as paralysis.

Just the willingness

to remain awake

inside interpretation.

To ask:

why does this feel convincing?

What part of me

wants this to be true?

What am I adding

to what has been given?

These questions do not erase illusion.

Fog still gathers

over the field at morning.

But they change

your way of walking through it.

You stop confusing clarity

with certainty.

You hold conclusions

the way someone carries a bowl

filled close to the edge—

carefully,

ready to adjust

with each step.

That is enough.

Not perfect knowledge.

Just continued relationship

with what is happening

while it happens.