Sitting Still

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i

sit still

listening to the warm colors

bloom over the eastern mountains

i flow

into the tides of what is

flowing into its ebbs

as soft golden rays

inflame the sky

here all is welcome

here one doesn’t need to go anywhere

to be free

to be whole

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simply here

i am rooted

in this solitude

here

there is nothing to own or gain

there is no higher or lower

all are included in my embrace

love flows through

light as air

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i have nowhere to go

nowhere to be

but present and alive

here i embrace all i come across

again and again

flowing like a river

whole like the ocean

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in the community of friends

in the community of wildness

i need no nation

no state to indoctrinate

or keep me safe

i need no artifice

to fulfill or turn me towards

something else

here lies a vision beyond heaven

a place more beautiful and free

beyond any riches

a place that holds

no discrimination

no hatred

no imprisonment

a place that lies in the

solitude of awareness

in the quiet of the mind

in the wholeness of love