No escape

Resist your temptation to lie

By speaking of separation from God,

Otherwise,

We might have to medicate

You.

In the ocean

A lot goes on beneath your eyes.

Listen,

They have clinics there too

For the insane

Who persist in saying things like:

"I am independent from the

Sea,

God is not always around

Gently

Pressing against

My body."

From: 'The Gift'

Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

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There are times we think

That we are all alone

We stumbling through a day, a week

A month, a year

A life

Thinking that we are connected to no one

We do not have a love

Perhaps not even friends

And we walk alone

But we are never alone

All around us

In the sky the earth

In the sun the moon

In the breeze

Is Sacred

All through us

In our mind, with its incessant crazy chatter

In our heart, sometimes aching and wounded

In our soul, in that deep place

Where we are

Who we really are

Is Sacred

God is touching

No

God is embracing us

Every moment

We cannot

escape