Standing Still

Standing where I am My eyes take off into the empty distance To the splitting path, where no one straight road rests. I look up and down I look and look… Mind to the rescue with what it knows, Intoxicated by fear swirls and swirls in spheres. It brings me back to nowhere. A place where I stay the course My legs bound to the solid ground I stand. Infinitely hushed By breaths of trees, Their movements, their dance. Sliding this way And coming back then the other way I stay in the gust of my uncertainty. The gift of now is our shield They serenade, Made of a native rock We are standing on the root here is our home we stand protected. Let me stay with you then Let me join you in your dance Let me share on the air, be part of your breath; And poise in stillness Where I am now Amongst you.