After Meditation*

When I rise
from thirty minutes
of sustained focus
I glance back
to see if there is
a  silhouette of
my sitting place.
Has the stress, strain, scurry
that I sloughed off
left a sifting
of silt scattered
from this,
the daily dusting
of my spirit?

*Meditation - "a smooth, unbroken flow of attention on a single subject" - Eknath Easwaran

A.H.