I watched as the evening sunlight laced
Shadow patterns across your flank
And
I said,
‘But
that is for me, what is for you?’
Sensing the truer half of a clumsy question
You ushered me closer with compassion
I pressed my
head against your bark
Hands on the
rough grooves of life lived
A familiar
pose.
In the
emptiness behind my thoughts you somehow spoke
Shifting the
channels of my mind to show me
That yours
is;
An unutterable
intimacy with all life
And a deep
groundedness in the wholeness of things
My heart
quickened
And
I was silent
