Why Vision Quest or All of Life Will Love Us All of Life
We stay asleep
until we choose to awaken
Awaken to the shape of breathing
descending unto, under and beneath
arising and lifting with ascent
Yet not staying
not lingering
Each small part a blessing
a thing in space and time
to relish and discover
A wave with no thing moving
just lifting and falling
Between them both a smooth shelf
sharing all the shapes of the curving wave
That which rises
then falls
Who Am I to judge?
says the wise observer
Who Am I to halt at any port
and pretend I know
A port is a place of safety
to restock
to rest
to unload
Allow nature to unload you
invite nature to rest you
embrace a new cargo
for your next voyage journey of adventure
Where will you and I go?
will it be our decision
held within the confines of
history patterns and control
Same old pattern
Same old vision
from behind locked doors
Who will unlock your door
our door, my door
Who will unlock it?
Let me be free
Let me rent myself again
Invest in owning me
But I must love what I own
otherwise it is a wasted chance
I must buy shares in myself
otherwise the voyage and visions future is wasted
the ship is sunk
Before shehe or heshe makes way
So I must awaken
keep breathing and
stop judging how and when and if I arrive
A master said
"awaken, awaken, awaken
whilst you are in this body
for everything is within it
Nature the earth and the sky
in magnificent chaos of balanced
forces easing, shaking and shivering
Nature in colours, texture and taste calls us
Calls all of us, me you and the postman
To unlock our predictable safe house
of knowing each day in suffocation
Become as crazy and colourful
as all the flowers that bloom
We are and can be those flowers
we bloom and unfold each petal
with each deepening breath
stretching each petal arising
Exposing delicate shimmers
on long stalks of delight
attracting smiles and tasting so sweet
Nectar of honey and syrup
Who will love us?
I ask who will love us?
All of Life
Will Love Us
All of Life
