Whose sand this is, I think I know
Her house is in the village though
Her home is wide and full of space
We gather outside to meditate
Thanking the wisdom from wherever
We seek her: Stars, Moon, Sun
Plants, minerals, rocks, everywhere
Inside of us and all around us
We rock and roll throughout our lives
Knocking down anthills to survive
Wanting to make our claim as people
When we are so much more than human
Wily and cunning, we become what
We eat and absorb from our environments
The noises and music
The odors and glorious smells of
Fresh bread and chocolate
The liquids around us, oh, the water
We drink and bathe in, what has
Happened to our water?
We cannot clean off this slime
We dig so deeply into the soil
To find new spring waters to quench
Our thirst, to cleanse ourselves
Hoping for transformation, rebirth
Once naked, new, and innocent, we
Discover a huge mountain
Whose peak we can never reach
Until we decide to let go, release
Surrendering to the inner knowing
And the knowing field all that
We knew before, all that we will
Learn and all that we are
From the depths of Mother Ocean
To the air currents of Father Sky
We are nature, dropping down
Into a devotional pose
Knowing what we have known all along
We were not just born here
We have not just been living here
We have been around forever
From star systems to starbursts
From galaxies to the deep core of Mother Earth
All of us humans joining together
For just this lifetime, now
Pleased to be part of the process
Longing to know where we came from
Where are we now and where we might go
After dying when we explode
We are all times and all space
From everything our human brain
Knows to what we cannot fathom
All we are now, have been and will be
“… as it was in the beginning
Is now, and ever shall be
World without end. Amen.”
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