Swan

The Hamsah swan

alights without a whisper

on the still heart's lake.

“Hamsah” means both

swan and soul

in the first language

of meditation.

We received this mantra

at the highest initiation,

our birth.

 

Breathe in Aham, I Am.

Welcome the grace

of your existence,

because Being is nothing

but grace.

Breathe out Sah, She who Is.

Gift yourself to the Giver.

 

Why are you here?

To make an offering

of your body

to the one who enfolds

each atom with a kiss,

and kneads

each particle of no-thing

into gristle and bone.

 

Now rest in the folding

of the swan's wings,

a boundless dot

between out and in

where Ham and Sah dissolve.

 

How could there be more

than Zero?

Before creation,

each creature already

rests in God,

You in I, I in You.

And with each exhalation,

we return

to rest in God.

 

It's no secret, friend.

Just to breathe

is the purest worship,

and every breath

is God's name.