It came to me
from inside my bones.
A package sent from the past,
The future urging me to open it.
So I light the sage,
Bring the package out,
And set my body upon the land.
The Earth, she reveals it all to me, every time.
With gratitude,
I return.
Having gone empty,
I’ve been filled again.
I cross back over
while my heart shakes hands
with the Infinite,
then greets the world anew with a smile.
At the core is only love,
Founded on humility so honest
it requires me to shine,
and call the others out from their hiding.
i love reading your poetry! i like the last stanza the best, juxtaposing humility and shining, which one wouldn’t ordinarily put together yet fits beautifully.
i’m curious: who are the others? i’d love to read a poem about them! this poem is so introspective and personal to the speaker, and then the others come in at the end, a surprise… maybe there’s more here… i’m intrigued.
love you bro!
the others are everybody else! the idea is that we are all holding each other up with love, to be our best, and that we have compassion and forgiveness when others make mistakes, or when others do self-defeating behaviors because they are scared. it’s about liberation!