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Not From, Not To, But Are
By Jane Tawel
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It is not where you are from
Nor where you are going
Not from, not to,
But are.
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How very silly we have been
to stand on what is behind us
(that belonged to someone else).
Or to look toward what we imagine is before us
(tomorrow never comes for it is always now)
What a tragi-comedy we live
To bank on what is on the bank
To live clinging to the shore
And to miss what is right here
right Now
and which is always without effort
moving, floating, streaming –
Oh! — the Current can not be
dammed with words.
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We were made to feel
the Flow
Water and blood flow
We see water flow
We can feel it flow through our hands
Impossible to grasp.
We sense blood flow
Through veins, heart pumping
Surging life through bodies made
of dancing molecules.
In life, water and blood flow separately
But in Death, water and blood flow out together.
In death, we know they are one
as we are One.
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When life flows out of this cask of blood and bones,
of sensibility and sinew,
of dermis and dreams,
the container will no longer be needed.
And we will join the Great Flow
Flowing out and on
“Deep and wide
Deep and wide
There’s a Fountain flowing deep and wide”**.
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“Don’t wait”! cry the angels,
“Join the Great Flow now!”
Letting go
Releasing
No judgement
No fear
You are already in and of.
There is no need to know
There is only experiencing.
One joins the Stream
And then knows without knowing
That the Water flowing
is also the swirl of Light.
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© Jane Tawel, 2026
** These words are from an old children’s Sunday School song called “Deep and Wide”. We knew more as children, it seems.
Jane Tawel 