Remember?

this grand event of sitting still, serene,

grinning lazily while channeling the warmth,

light and joy of simply being alive?

that incredibly gentle loving breeze

that tickles the skin,

the hairs on your arm flutter gracefully

while glee creeps wickedly up your spine..

so delicious!

We look for these things,

these reasons and ways to reconnect

with the wonder that keeps us rising at dawn,

heaving ourselves heavily out of blessed slumber,

resurrecting ourselves and rejoining the mundane routines

of our uncertain beings..

what happens outside of us

and to us

is not of any import at all.

It is all in how we connect

with what is,

it is all in how we see and feel what surrounds us.

What is it that you and I need

that keeps us rising and wandering and wondering?

We seekers of love

lost outside our own throbbing boiling cores,

continue to search and reach outward

for that which is central within us.

We seekers of peace

cry out at the world of grief

that reminds us time and again

that we cannot embrace one another

until we learn to embrace ourselves

completely and finally..

Can I find the promised land

within me?

The uncontested sacred space,

so tranquil and protected

that nothing outside me,

nothing outside us,

can penetrate the boundaries

of the one true sanctuary?

“awakening otter”