Dance Like Windblown Leaves

Dance 

like windblown leaves, 

giving fascination. 

Become fascination, 

intoxicated within the wind. 

Write, 

like an inspired poet, 

giving wisdom. 

Inspired by wisdom, 

live your life like poetry. 

Burn 

like a fragrant candle,

giving light. 

Venture out in your own light 

and start a new life.

Embrace, 

like the open, sheltering sky. 

See your own spaciousness and

become the sky, 

moon, and stars. 

Be the world. 

Dissolve in love and create your

own galaxies —

ignoring rewards, rules, 

repercussions, and salaries!

Love 

like a soft blanket, 

a cup of tea, 

an ambrosia, and 

a good breeze. 

Love, 

your deepest desire, pursuit, and passion,

intoxicating you 

like pure wine.  Time dissolves and 

you are young again with vibrancy. 

Love, 

its divine flow, is 

without reason or logic. 

Your wisdom and poetry

are pointless.

Love 

whispers 

you away from 

rules and conventions but 

may also walk you to the scaffold. 

Love 

arrives in ten directions, 

all around, up and down, 

to sweep you away from your musty place. 

You are cleaned out but left free, without name or status. 

Emptied, 

you are without 

a dwelling, but everywhere 

is your home. You are, like a drum, vast and void, 

able to sound your own beat and music.

Let your dewdrop return to the ocean — 

for starfish and sharks to swim, 

for corals and seaweeds to anchor, 

for fish and sea urchins to breathe, 

for the waves to billow. 

The sun casts its crimson plays. 

The moon whispers 

its deepest secrets. 

The willow bows 

its shadow in respect.

Be, 

like dewdrop,

emitting radiance.

Recognize your own vast waters 

and become the ocean. 

As the ocean, you are

manifesting, offering, 

nursing, welcoming, 

becoming, and encompassing 

all.