The Embodiment

The time to evacuate
Has passed. Now it’s time to go
To ground, start hunkering down—

When wise folks say to be here
Now, be in this moment, now
Comes belatedly, after

A lot of warnings to leave.
Be here now. The scampering moments
Have all fled and are busy

Being wherever there is.
Now, you’ll just to be here.
And you’re happy, so happy

To be here just being sun
Rising on the flooded square.