INTO THE EMBRACE

They say there's nothing like love

But within love there's a road

You think you've reached the end when you get to a station

Just to see it goes on and on

Sometimes you can see the next station

Recognize the magnificence of its placement and elevation

The road looks hard to climb

You long to know what more is there

You wonder about the stations beyond

The ones you can't see

Are they really there?

You wonder if it's all true

if it's worth it

if it's time that you dare

If you put the question out there

The answer will come

You will never despair

My answer was a moment

A vision, an experience

Whatever you want to call it

I was there

My body shaking, my cells vibrating

I was melting and frail

This is not what I knew of delight and happiness

These words are not enough

But I don't know of other words that I can share

Now all I do with my time is think

I want to go, up there

INTO THE WIND

Forget riding the waves
And try to ride the wind
With two legs, and two arms
The task is dangerous and challenging
They told you people were not made for flying
Yet a hurricane has carried heavier things
The question is how, you and the wind, can be friends

Open the windows
Listen to the wind chimes
Whisper to the air, your words of devotion and care
At the edge of the cove where the waves rage below
Stand to the wind and show your trust, as it runs its fingers through your hair
Put your sorrows and worries in a suit of light around you
Step out of it, and let the wind have it like it was theirs

Breathe, Breathe, Breathe

Let it flow everywhere inside you
Give it what it finds
Even if it hollows you

Be prepared for the unstable ride
One hour in the sky, and the next you're not there
Breathe when you fall
Breathe when you rise

There is nothing left to fear, when you've made the wind your friend
Listen to the sound of your inhale
Remember the shakings behind the howling, and a hurricane at the might of its dare
Remember the gentleness of the breeze, when a wind chime sweetly rings with flare

Listen to the sound of your exhale
It's yours, and there's no other sound like it in the universe
It's your command to the wind
Your unique choice of what to declare
There is nothing left to fear, when you've made the wind your friend
There is nothing left to fear, when you've learned how to inhale and exhale