pat loughery

Like a wooden spinning top
with its main mass lopsidedly near the edge,
I have wobbled erratically,
weaving an uncertain
inconsistent
and unstable course
through life so far.

 I have lived inauthentically
off-centre
away from the core of my being,
not constantly tapping into the well
of my being.
I have not invoked my vocational
mystery, endowed by the Eternal One.
At an early age an obscuring
of the centre was made manifest.

 Now in middle age, early forties,
I want to spin, dance truly
from my centre,
so I am still, yet turning
to the Source of life within and beyond.

 – Glyn Brangwyn, quoted by Ray Simpson in Exploring Celtic
Spirituality, 2004, p.
71