Life

 

Life,

Sense how it lands in your body

The pull of gravity on your spine
Elongating or contracting
Your soles arching then softening
on the ground underneath
Your shoulders hunching
like a protective shield
or relaxing back down
Arms dangling softly
surrendering like leaves
Floating in space as it must

Hear the sounds falling
all around you,
then inside you
Pleasant singing or
an ominous rumbling
Listen to each note,
flat or sharp singing
the song of your heart

Taste the nectar of tenderness
or biting sourness of pain
The pang of hurt without
downing liquid to hide its bitter taste

Smell the cusp of elation
like cinnamon,
or peppermint or lavender, or rose,
or of the aftermath of disconsolation
Like something you would
Rather avoid

Feel how your pulse quickens
Then slows down,
Your breath hurried then steady,
the pressure in your veins
Tightening then calming

Life,

Let it rise in you
Let it all fall
Let it settle slowly
landing on and in your body
Sense everything that enters
Into this sacred space
Come home, come in
You are gloriously alive
You have arrived.