Ritual

I watch people undertake mindless rituals.
They do these activities which define them,
For no other reasons than habit.
Or perhaps a promised ticket to heaven.
I ask them why?
What is the purpose?
They don't seem to know the answers.

Yesterday a Koori Uncle explained a practice of his people.
Build up the camp-fire before you retire for the night.
To me it served no purpose in the laws of cause and effect.
Tomorrow we would need to gather more wood,
For what reason?

Yet he said it was for the 'old people' to enjoy.
(He meant his spirit ancestors.)
I realised this ritual was what 'it' was all about,
What all rituals are about.
Mindfulness.