My Pleasure

Once I found compassion was my pleasure
there was a new serenity in me
that stirred and startled me and settled me,
foundation, firm, soft, reliable, mine

I sat upon an inner rocking chair, 
gazing at the stars, but close distant kin,
I felt the unwarranted grace of life,
a spark of heat and light as passing's skin

I sing the urgent waking of my night…