I invite the silence
While I’m running fingers through my hair
When I slip a dish into the dishwasher
I open my ears,
The sounds of clink and swish from the water
I call to what’s under that
My heart beating
Keeping pace with my movements
Supplying me
One moment and I’m in
A dream
In between the turning of this page
In between the passion of dreamed kissing
I’m between the sticks that rub together making fire crackling
I’m setting the table
I’m driving the car
I’m grieving for silence
To be alone with my precious losses;
or to run from them within the quiet
Where a scream cannot escape in the same way
Under this examination
Under this breath
The stillness of my inner winds
I crave the silent cave
Of my inner knowing
The moment of sweat that collects on my brow
That elicits the wind
That joins with the wind
That feels the flush of air
That knows spacious longing
And a settling
That sits with grief as a blanket
and while I lift this next dish into the sink, full now of sacred, too
I poise it over the dishwasher
Considering which shelf is best,
I hug myself a little more tightly
I reassure me:
The trees know you long for them, too
The grass knows your ear against the ground
Listening
The listening knows your listening even when
You talk past everyone in the room;
Why?
Because you are made of earth, and she is you. And you are not a random
Stranger to this land
Your blood and veins
And the molecules and atoms
And smaller still, inside quarks
You are sparkling with divine
delight
And your silence is indeed so spacious and filled with creation, bustling and ready to go..
If only, if only, there was a response.
Call and response is the nature
of dance,
music,
art,
Truth.
Shakti and Shiva
Yin and Yang
Bless me with this urge to know
As it is deeply sparkling within me;
Let my longing not be an imposter for
Another distraction
But lead to all the timeless Romes..
through silk roads and deep within
the forest.
A dish is not a dish here.
I can live many lives within this one,
I can live, even, quite possibly
without you.
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