Tag: Meditations

  • Pothos Aurelius

    Pothos Aurelius

    My pothos might be stoic,
    for through drought and floods,
    it not only survives,
    but it wonderfully thrives.

    It must have overheard
    as I read "Meditations"
    by Marcus Aurelius
    and grasped the lesson.

    I wish I could learn as fast
    to set aside the angst,
    accept each sucker punch,
    amor fati and lovely spasms.

    Come again, atomic what?
    You say, habits or bombs?
    I think one must possess
    a taste for the grotesque

    to love a fate so brutal
    shape-shifting at any moment.
    Unasked advice in my chest,
    to navigate the tempest.