I am a lucky man, I am
I sit in mountains watching sky
As Moon traverses showing path
For Sun to take in just an hour

The trees, my friends, stand ever straight
And radiate their calmness true
My soul’s enraptured with the touch
Of cool thin air embracing me

I ponder when it came to me
To open soul and spirit wide ...

A woman in whose eyes I dwelled
As one whose outer shell did fall
Revealing naked self to her
As she herself did show to me

From that time until now I flow
As like a river through the world
Accepting all I touch and see
As part of me -- and lovingly

My breast does swell with nameless warmth
A joyful feeling calmly felt
How easily I might, I think
Become a tree and friend to all

There is no ending to this poem
Like Nature’s patterns through us all
And we are played as instruments
In this celestial symphony ...

09/07/1998

Posted on 11/07/2001
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