Dying while you are alive
Yogis spoke of it
Maybe like a surrender
Knowingness of the oneness
Near death experiences people
See the light
Either by spirit or on their death bed
The wildflower knows of it
If it does not die
It will not live again
So was it your gift to me
Everything you took and gave
Holding a knife to my throat
To my heart
Even if It took me a while to take a breath again
Even if I forgot to say thank you
Even if you forgot the pain was temporary
Slitting your own throat
To go back to the light again
Tried of tears you wanted to be the rain
So now I keep opening
There is no other choice
I know death will come to me again
And again
She is not fear
Only love
It does not matter how far you go out. or
How small, contracted, dark, invisible
It is still in infinite
It is still only love
You see this
You remember this
And like the seed
Buried deeply
Darkly
The rain, the mud, fat worm friends.
Playing roots like guitars.
True nourishment. Maybe a longing to expand
Again
So you feel this
With everything in you
Cracking open
Only infinitely
To push through the ground
Past the grinning grubs
The pebbles seems like boulders
At last the light
The place to expand
Bloom
Grow without patience
None is needed
Timeless. Always. Never ending.
Feeling the wind as endless as the mud was.
Blooming
Seeing yourself reflected 8 million times
Your fragrance 25 miles all around
A soul 1.5 ounces
Practicing love
Learning love
Feeling the wind
Listening to the grasses practice their music
They never stop practicing
They know love has a sound
Determined to find it
And what are you determined to do?
To soften your ears. Eyes. Heartspace.
To embroider with the golden thread
Humming while you make art
Letting it save you
Letting yourself be found
Through your brush strokes
Through your hands.
Nectar dripping from them.
From letting yourself be held.
From finding you here.
Your fingers in my ribcage.
One and one makes 11
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