The Impostors

Shunyru Suzuki said something like 'welcome every thought but don't serve them tea'. At a recent retreat, it became clear, yet again, how I get identified with so many thoughts and what a struggle it is to disengage. But once in a while, the disidentification happens effortlessly. Here is what it felt like:

The Impostors
All this while I thought
that when I got home
and found all kinds of impostors
pretending to be me,
I had to wrestle them down
tie them up
and throw them out
but today
I just smiled
and they vanished.
Tomorrow of course
one of them impostors
will be doing the smiling
but today
for now
the house is empty.