Submission to Reality

All of my life
I have been practicing
Practicing to let go

Letting go is learned and
Natural only in the way
The way of all evolution

Gradually, the soma
And the psyche join
They come to understand

The grandeur of the
Backyard copper beech
And how they had nothing

Nothing at all
To do with it
But something else did

Sovereign something
Teaching me over time
To accept reality

The question I have
About all such contemplation
Is the unlikely pairing

Of action with thinking
How to let go
And, concomitantly, act

How to let go
And when and
When not to

Retirement is such a
Foreign concept
Final stage of release

Submission to reality