Big Skies

It’s funny, when you think about it,
how easy it would be
to do the things we find so hard -
surrounded by cars and roads and shops and houses –
how easy it would be to know enough,
to feel an end to restless constant restless striving,
to breathe in peace and home and wonder,
to feel the simple word ‘content‘ start to settle on our hearts,
how easy it would be to feel these things
by sitting, simply sitting,
by the huge open canvas of a big, wide open sky.