Living Zen Life

Eleven years retired from the working world
grateful I could do so knowing many cannot. 
On my own now with time
I consider retirement of another kind
from a burdensome sense of responsibility
imposed from without
to a liberating one rising from within.
 
I desire to let go of obligatory responsibilities
that cost me more than what may be bought for the price
let go the importance assigned to values 
that I no longer value so highly
that do not serve me so well in my advancing years.

I wish to know what life may be 
when necessities of responsibility are mediated 
through my well informed heart and mind
arbitrated not by the hard masculine
but by wisdom sourced from the enabling feminine
where my heart may live free 
my mind at ease.

Why write about this now
as I remember my wife in renewed ways?
Perhaps because in my haste to go
and the ensueing whirlwind of the past few years
I neglected what I never should have.
I don't want to make that mistake again.