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Look in a Room
  © Vern Beaumont 2004
 
Go
Look
In a room
A room you know well
As well as you know the back of your hand.
Look around that room
And find a place within it
Where you have never stood before.
Go to that place,
It may be high
It may be low,
And sit
Or stand
Or crouch.

Now
Look at this room
And see it
As you have never seen it before …
From a different angle
A new perspective
Another point of view.

Now Look around and see what is good
And be contented
See what has beauty
And be enriched
See what is not as it should be
What disturbs the balance and harmony of the room
Or simply does not belong there.

Then
Consider change
Move something from one place to another
Introduce something new
Remove that which is not wanted.

Now
Go
Look into yourself
Look around inside
And find a place within you
Where you have never been before.
Go to that place
And sit.

Then
Look at yourself
As you never saw yourself before …
From a different angle
A new perspective
Another point of view.

Then
Consider change.