Thank you Elisha.   Wonderful.   I liked the poem.  However I am continually surprised in my meditations that my pain, lostness, has as its cause a hole.  I am aware of the pain during the living of my days but not the holes in which I am.  In living in the moment for even a few minutes every day I gradually stop blocking this connection then all of a sudden I see the hole.I also find that I have been working very hard with this blocking.                                                               I identify my holes as obsessions--bad habits that have a great deal of self protecting power. Over the years I have convinced myself that they are not holes but a level sidewalk or even secure and necessary highways.  The very troublesome ones were established early in my youth.    

       Just being faithful with making this connection every day weakens the obsession.  Gratitude for everything I find also very helpful and probably necessary.        Lawrence

I have problems with obsessive thoughts. Sometimes I spend a lot of time trying to analyze why i reacted a certain way to someone, or why I may be feeling anxious, and so on. But i'll spend a lot of time and energy doing this, and then I realize, "hey, I'm obsessing again." Luckily,the phases don't last as long as they used to. I still wish I would catch myself sooner, but maybe it's like when we notice our mind is wandering. once we notice, we're aware again. we're in the present moment.