seeing what’s going on around you…
opening your heart, and feeling what’s
going on around you. we are surrounded
by need, and we are the only answer!
forget your own hunger, feed your neighbor!
forget your lonliness, you are a wave
in the sea of humanity. forget your ideas
of right and wrong, and do the dirty work
of compassion.
forget your fear of dying, and dare to live!
and spoke to a leaf:‘what’s your name? ‘the leaf paused for a moment,and spoke,‘you can call me child of the limb,or child of the tree,or child of the earth,or child of the sun and rain…or you can just call me, Bob!what’s your name? ‘i thought for a moment,and smiled:‘you can just call me……..leaf! ‘
the price is too heavyand the payment’s come duewe stand and face our own raging egos,the mistakes of the past taunt us from the shadows,if we cant redeem today they’ll be no tomorrow,we were born to run never born to follow,we look in our hearts and find that we’re hollow,confessing our sins and drowning in…
you just being you,in all of your youness…as no one else can do!
and the dawn never came?what if all my dreams turned to salt,and lightning left the skies?what if my body turned to ashes,and my bones were scattered unknown?what if my name were lostto the emptiness of time…and my heart, cut as firewood,to feed a stranger’s fire?what if everything i’ve done,forgotten as if i never lived?what if…
as she sat in her favorite chair,watching the sunrise throughan open window….the stray cat lay in her lap,perfectly still,while birds with hidden facessang songs to the stillness…and time itself began again!
a cup, a key…a candle in the night,a small fire by the road.an old oak that standsthrough the winter storm,a barn, a saddle,a hand-me-down coat.whatever is needed,whatever can be used.given without regard…just given… because!
