no  matter

where you are

no matter where you think you are

no matter what you believe yourself to believe

in matter

in thought

which is matter

there is

presence

in

all things

the ever knowing

You

any obstacle

no matter

the form, function or way in which you first encountered it

is but

a form of energy

whether it be

intellectual, emotional, financial, legal , psychological or spiritual

all energy descends in order to be

experienced

if you can totally receive it

then you will turn it around

things that make up all the building blocks of your life

are what they are

by changing your relationship to and with them

they too will change

and create a new cycle of being

if you want change in your life

be with what  ‘is’

and then by doing so

change

presents it itself

as opportunity

the traces flow everywhere

in shadows and in light

in footsteps, half remember sentences

in memories and futures dreamed

the traces flow everywhere

once the hunters slowly become the hunted

and they are forced into narrow canyons

like spear throwers or whalers in a high sea borne canoe

the fatal strike

slips gently

traces flow

with a slow and worn breath

traces no longer

are to be found

but in the echoes

of their

fears

we, each of us

are

in between

the was and when

the is and now

the why and how

wisdom waits

while impatience hammers at the unlocked door

compassion is  seemingly passive

while cruelty gains all the headlines

negative actions, thoughts and beliefs

are portrayed as glamourous

wisdom waits

your whole lifetime

to be welcomed in

wisdom is not about happiness

but about knowing,

what is and accepting that

without interpretation or motive

wisdom waits

it has no opinion

only itself

Change is not what you think it is

those who call for the end of days

or the increasing unrest to be quelled

should pause

listening to the human swell

that murmurs quietly in the flux

people want to know how to be comforted ,educated and empowered

through the window of their own wisdom

change is not what you think it is

the Earth has its own way

as does the systems of Nature

if we started to address the pollutions within us all

the the world, the earth, the natural pulse would

rush out to join us

change is not what you think it is

we are blind to our own history

for history is an eye that sees unblinkingly

and has a voice that never stops chanting its refrain

while The World, the Earth and the Natural Systems

will follow their own paths of change

change is not what you think it is

In dreams

you can see

all the time

that stitches your life

unravel and by that cast a new design

if you catch your dreams on the inward breath

between waking and sleeping

and with a long breath out

you can stitch your life again

sewn by breath dreams and intention

for you are eternal magic in

a mortal urn

living,dying

in dreams.in life

in turning

to return

between the

two

in dreams

you can find

a door

to the place of non-dreaming

of not sleeping

of being and becoming

awake

does the raindrop

return from whence it came?

from sea, or lake, stream or breath?

from puddle, sewer, steam?

all of this

is moisture

in your breath

every raindrop

water in your body

swishing

in the twilight ponds

where your soul bathes

before being discovered,

naked

by the winds of change and becoming

the raindrop is all of us

falling, evaporating

becoming rain again

December 2022

shall be remembered

when the earth

almost

split in

two

and those

who did not understand

shall forget who they were

before and during