I think of you sat by the edge of a river
Many times, whole days spent
With the way the water flowed
That easy posture
Sat on rivers bend
Bare back against tree trunk
Knowing one another’s strength
Your weight alive with the earth of the bank
Your mind, who knows?
Beautifully still
Beautifully full
Thoughts at war, fast and whirring
Were you sat bearing too much reality?
Or instead did your thoughts fade
The poles of pairs parting
Sitting with water in the gaps of time
Heart swimming
What would you have made of me now
And the waterfall of my mind/heart combination
Had we the chance to continue
knowing one another by our slower thoughts
The chance to change together
Like the water
Flowing on and on until the sea
Maybe, maybe we all end in the sea, eventually
And did you look up ever?
Skin on bark at the river bend
Looking upon the dendritic patterns
Of the branches above, onto the spiral galaxies beyond
Up, yes and also I imagine your gaze went soil down
Considering connectivity and a single source
Sensing symbiosis and the eternal song
A thinking with the planet about the planets
On a river bank meditating on the ways you were loved
Cultivating a felt sense of that love as a true possession
It is those dendritic patterns again
Tributaries of singing water
Surging through your family and friends
Beyond Kin and tribe
To an open handed
Open hearted
Field of wonder
Abiding in the perpetual flowerings of loss and love
Tender shoots of healing
And so many tones of beauty.
