Tag: being

Being Home

On the journey home
I began to understand
How much, in that moment
Home was where I wanted to be

Not for its familiarity
Nor for its comforts
Nor even its dull grey beauty

But for its being
An integral part

Of my being

I have made myself
A collection of angles and hard lines
A manifestation of steely pride

Still the shadow of nature
Falls upon me
With her supple forms
Her irregular grace

So I quiet the urge for being
Let her sunshine warm me
And become the bough
Blowing in the wind

Most days
Cloud obscures the sun
Wind unsettles the landscape
Rain douses the spirit

On such days
I strive for clarity
For the deepest answers
For the deepest questions
For the deepest experience

I see the world
Through multiple frames
Fractured and faceted
Broken and breaking

Or is the world
Just as it is
And all the fractures and facets
All the breakage and breaking

Just me?

As the light rises
With the dawn of a new day
I wrap my being around the positive
To begin again the exploration
Of possibility

The Wire Man spoke
Substance, said It
Is a matter
Of subjective opinion

I am naught but wire
Wrapping a steel skeleton
On top of which rests
A pattern of thoughts

Space to grow
Space to live
Space to explore
Space to stretch out
Space to breathe
Space to be

Making space
For what comes next

Blood courses through me
Red life

More than grey matter
More than thoughts
More than being
More than all the love
I have ever given

In the final moments
I stop
When blood stops

I am
Blood

I have learned
There is peace to be had
Tranquility
In any given moment

I close my eyes
Breathe, consciously
And bring up an image
Of tranquility

A memory
A fantasy
A painting
A scene

Hold that in my mind

Breathing in
Breathing out