Peace in Motion

Peace in Motion

Breathe in. The wind
is peace in motion, and you
are both catcher and giver
of the divine spirit.

With every breath
in and out, you become
an active participant,
a windmill of the spirit.
You are life.

To be otherwise
is to cease breathing. 

But even the stillness of breath
is not the end of your story. 

Your soul will become one
with the wind, with the spirit.

The memory of you
will be given and caught
by words from those
who have been touched
by your presence. 

Words, and the memories
they call forth, like breath,
will go in and out, in and out.

But for now, you breathe.
Even those moments
when you wish to disappear;
to become one with
the underside of a stone,

you are still participating
in the communion of life,
for we all breathe
in and out, in and out.

And even when the wind
feels more like a tornado
circling us around our origins
and back to where we stand,
it is still peace in motion.

Peace in motion is breath,
and to breathe is to live.
Breathe out.  And then,

breathe in again.


SWPoet
10-5-2010

Reading suggestion:
Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh (and other books by this author)