Why Did You Come?

    

You did not come to this planet
to worship a pair of sandals
or a white robe.
You did not come to this planet
to be on the left or the right,
to be a believer or a non-believer,
to be the color "white" or the color "black."
You did not come here to get angry
at reflections in a mirror
or prepare for disasters
that never happen.
No friend, you came to be
astonished by a dust mote.
You came to be torn in two
by laughter and pain,
then made whole again
by the tang of a berry
on your wild tongue.
Why waste another moment
arguing for or against
when you could slide down
this beam of breath,
soft as moonlight,
into the radiance you are?