Into a smile, I found a place of peace,
of release,
and finding that so bountiful,
I gave my heart to the ground.

The earth whispered to me and kept me company
as I took another step into mystery.

Finding this path, this way of sort of being,
I began to sense another
inside of me, saying
‘all manner of things will be well’

And I kept that in my heart as I rejoiced in my contact
with the world around me.

Flow of body, of blood, of energy,
seemingly ceaseless, made me think and not think
at all and the same time,

and as I smiled into smile after smile
a sunrise occurred around my eyes,
seeing light in darkness where there was no light before.

‘Raise your self,’ my body said.
‘What now?’ my mind replied.
‘When else?’ my body said.

So I did, and found another life inside and outside.