To be human - Cristina Viviani

To be human

is to sense everything

and to release everything

—nothing belongs to us.

Here, I am a guest cradled in the arms of

this blue-green, spinning miracle.

I am swirling the Milky Way through this body.

I am skipping a river in and out of this heart place.

I am breathing a mangrove forest into these lungs.

I am tears pearling down a young child’s face.

I am the ache and thirst of Gaia’s shifting Tectonic plates.

I am streaming, sparkling, showering Lotus light;

the waking unfolding universe dreams

my veins, my flesh, my bones in the rain.

I am dancing Venus into her salmon skirts.

I am creating all this and I am One.

You are not other than I

the vast dazzling sky.

I am—yet nothing belongs to me

not even the I that believes—I am.