Never Alone Again
Dry desert with hot, streaming sun
Lying on my back facing upwards
Black Birds pecking at my abdomen
Deeply rolling thunder all around
The message I thought I heard
All of my life was
“You need to feed the world”
Which somehow got transformed into
“You need to be the food”
So, imagine my disgust and dislike
Of these birds poking around in my belly
I thought I must be their food
(Which I don’t object to if my
Body has died and I have moved on)
But, the activity wasn’t painful
Or wretched at all
Actually, clarifying
I am alone
All alone in this dry desert
(Except for the crows and
The Sun, sand, and cacti
Rocks and silly me)
Now, I see and feel these
Black crows stitching me up
As if they are seamstresses and
I am a cloth, they are using
Thread and instruments
To piece me together
Into better working order
Recreating, restoring, renewing
What has been before
Knitting in expansions between
The capillaries and the arteries
Maintaining a steady flow of
Life, blood, and water
As if they were galactic
Elemental creatures
Technicians, technologists
Just doing their jobs
Helping this human body
Achieve better health and well-being
A snake begins to loosen my joints
(Those arthritic ones that seem
All crunched up together)
Releasing my neck
Pulling the bones away from
The nerves all the way down my spinal
Column, relaxing and soothing the
Jammed packed channel
Opening up to the Mystery
To Mother Plasma
Machines hover over me
Again, helping to heal old and
New wounds, taking stuff apart
Putting it back together
Creating new connections
Networking webs all around
The sore spots bringing more
Oxygen to every cell, organ, space
I now know that I am
Not alone in the vast expanse of
This world, Mother Earth, and
Any other worlds around us
Now I hear new
Words for my feelings:
I am never alone with
Stars, suns, heat, cold, galaxies
Black holes, magnetism, and love
Beasts, trees, flowers and plants
I rest now connected with
Human and divine energies
Emptiness and abundance
Intertwined together
Never Alone again
