I Have Eaten Kings and Bishops

I have eaten kings and bishops washed them down with blackened waves I have knelt among the vines of passion found them twined with crawling thorns I have held the rain inside my feet walking slow with tender grace I have embraced friends and strangers knowing them as unacknowledged kin I have spoken to the mountains felt their laughter in my heart I have whistled with the songbird shining humble as the dawn I have swallowed timeless oceans flowing swiftly in the flood I have journeyed to the sunset and found myself as everyone