!17
PROCESS*
Just when you give up the whole process begins again
and you are as pure
as if you had confessed
and received absolution.
You have done nothing
to deserve it,
you have merely slept
and got up again,
feel ing fine
because the morning is fine;
sufficient reason surely
for faith in a process
that can perform such miracles
without assistance from you,
Imagine what it would do
with a little assistance from you;
^From Pharos (Delhi) 1974. Reprinted by permission of the author and the editor
of Pharos.