Song of Body and World

There are

parts of us

so soft,

so sincere,

so true,

an ache

that comes

and goes

in the night,

an ocean

a lifetime

a legend

for the ages

in the flutter

of a single

heartbeat,

the secrets

carried

on the wings

of our cells

as they

work to

generate

the matter

of our

humble

and glorious

existence.

Listen for

the whisper

carried

in the blood,

lingering

on the skin,

preparing

itself

to come

through us

in song.

This is

the song

of our

one world

and our

one place

in it. – TS