Listen Child



Listen child,
To your breath belongs
the gentle power
that created the sun.
Your inhalation awakens
stars in your body.
Your exhalation charges
the moon and planets
with whirling fire.
Mountains, streams,
and forests live
because you are alive.
No one will teach you this in school.
They don't want you to be filled
with your own radiance,
which is incomparable.
You will have to learn it
from the terrible sweet drum
of your heart.
Listen child,
whatever you dream of,
whatever you desire,
whatever you worship,
you are that.
It glows from your Being.


Photo, our first child, Abby at six months

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