Not knowing why or how, I’ve found
the Pathless Path, happy to traverse
The Mother of the Heart, my home
knowing no nation, no beginning
No boundary, no end. Moving
where my heart leads, none
Too fast. Beauty is the one thing
stopping me to be held in rapture.
Sometimes, I sense the presence
of another form — bird song, river
Roar, sunlight shaft stretched out
through majestic pine. It is time
To listen, perhaps to speak, then
hold council, spiral space drawn
In dizzying rapture by dragonflies.
All my relations circle round to tell
My story with its cycle — life, death,
rebirth — and its random offerings —
Solace, comfort, danger, strange
music filled with shadows in light.
No instructions here, but an embrace —
A shining web of silken strands spun
Again and again, forward, backward,
upside down in pleasure and pain.
In no order other than my heart’s
beating inside — Oh cadence of
pathlessness, warm, rich, endless —
held by the breath of the wind.