Dear friends, Sunday night the speaker 
at our meditation group talked about 
feeling lonely at times, in spite of 
a good marriage, being a teacher, etc., 
Yesterday I posted Wordsworth's 
"Walking lonely as a cloud" under 
"Today's poem" for my meetup group. 
So I was thinking about my own feelings 
on this matter and this is what 
I came up with. Hope you like it!

Hope you are enjoying the 
beginnings of spring. I can already see 
little flowers popping up in my backyard.
Sankar

By the lake with the gulls and geese
3/10/2009

In the morning I hear the sparrows chirping
between the boughs of the juniper.

As I walk to work I see the gulls circling
above the silvery waters of the lake
where other gulls and geese
enjoy the sunshine.

At sunset as I walk home
geese squawk across the sky
home with their loved ones.

And in the night as I sit in silence
and solitude
Sometimes feeling forsaken
by the world
I close my eyes
let the mind float
until I can hear the ticking of the clock.
The sounds of the traffic
become indistinguishable
from the wind beating on the windows.
And I know
I am not alone.
I can feel
the world lives within me.