The open heart, my brother
Is like a luminous glowing
Spring flower surrendering
To the majestic golden embrace
Of the glimmering Hindu sunrise
I kneel and pray, honoring you
Under brilliant morning rays....
Ah-Cum-Kin-I-Ma-Hut
I feel your ancient presence
Under starlit heavens and constellations
Beneath this enormous canopy of trees
As the crickets and frogs quietly chirp
Praising you without words, distantly
Thoughts ascending upwards like smoke
From shimmering glittering embers
Of some radiant forgotten fire in a forest
Along the shores of a misty pond
The flame of youth, now so elusive
The great spirit, the everything
All that was, all that will be
The elixir of alchemy, the soma of India
The scent of burning sage across
Native American prairie
I am you
And you are me
The sacred, the mountains, sea and sky
Rest within, a magnificent totality
In this mirror-like reflection
On the silver rippling surface
Of a shallow minnow filled spring
That haunts me even to this day
Suffocated by cattails, cottonwood and birch
I honor you with thoughts, paintings, melodies
The poetry of kindness and love
In this I speak honestly, the truth
From now on and forever more
Beneath the bark and the tree
Underneath the surface,
Of what was once this earthly me