You Are Anything but Alone

On this earth,
it is important to remember
you are anything but alone,
that green buds sprout

each season,
that quarreling with
yourself is inevitable,
but that some part of you

is greater than that,
the part you find
in the forest, or near
the ocean - in the wild.

You will find
that the heart is constantly
growing larger, more than
you could have ever imagined

To Remember Everything

Sometimes when I wake
I wonder how such time has passed
How the years have come and gone
and filled me with memories

They become part of me
in ways I notice - and in some I don't
I pray that I become a little wiser
Or at least less foolish

To live without my memories
I might feel free and without worry
but that would only be a part,
just a fraction of who I am

I want live here in the moment
without being afraid of all that's past
I want to remember everything
and allow it to settle peacefully

What the Spirit Wants

What the spirit wants
is to be noticed, like the
rising sun or like the
hovering moon

The spirit wants us
to pause, and for a moment
become absorbed
in the eternal tension

The spirit wants us
to remember the fragility
and the promise of life
So that we reach out

with a gentle touch.
The spirit wants us to know
we are not alone, that centuries
of passion are watching

The Old King of Misery

The Old King of Misery
was the hardest to tame
he swept up strange thoughts
and mixed them with fire

Like a key without a lock
he shimmered in the mind's eye
creating ghosts of himself
in every corner

His fall began slowly, in the belly
with the knowledge of a universal
seed, one that blossoms out of
compassion

Flowers grew to surpass those
apparitions, the roots spread,
and that rude fear was replaced
by an ancient strength

A Bird Over Water

We have but one fragile life
One opportunity to tell the secrets
of the soul, But like a bird
gliding over the water

We are caught in the momentum,
everyday navigating the peaks
of the waves, the shifting breeze
and the glare of the sun

A bird gliding over the water
tells us its secrets discretely,
in a pure rhythm, somehow giving life
to the world around it

It dances with the elements -
if it knows sorrow, it does not let on
It moves naturally and with determination,
full of its own spirit