Half Awake

What life is this —
This duration from waking
To working
To sleeping —
Has no meaning

No significance or specialness exists
No purpose or objective here
Of course there’s none

What is meant by meaning
What does meaning mean
Is there any meaning —

To the strap on my wrist
Or these words written today
Words from gurus yesterday

All these things that I do —
Driving eating food
Drinking tea each day

Is life a sequence
Of felt experiences
Unfolding —

Like numbers on the screen
In a matrix
With operating system

Screen of mind
Moulding data
Into user-friendly colours
Labels and forms

See a cat — but really

Light hits the body
Enters eyes hits retina
Makes images in brain

Really

Are there images at all
Where are they formed

Are these words not images
What is a question, really
Question is just made up —
All of it
Feeling or just confusion

Half awake
In coma
Not sure what’s there