Come home.
Breathe and leave the battle
the blackened sky, the scorched terrain.
This war of mind and heart.
Come home.
End the killing thoughts
the dying feelings and the pain.
Let the healing start.
Remember where the fight began
with separation from our mother
(or we can say from God
if you prefer or must).
Back when I created I
then I am, then I am not.
The first laying claim to grace,
the last playing to distrust.
Even before I was I
or you were thee or them,
back when me or you or they
had no words or way to say...
The truth of all my dear
together before the dawn
when none of us had met dust
nor ever known fear...
Until one day a story:
To infinite little pieces
all across the universe
God scattered Herself
She said to each piece
Find Your Way Home.
It was then we each took yoga
and put it on the shelf.
What the fuck?
some of us wondered.
What does yoga have to do with battle?
And there love offered us a clue.
Meaning to yoke or bind or come together
and sometimes even marry.
Transcending our duality,
we all return to True.
Though NO! and YES! some still shout
to support their victimhood and war
they fight with in and then with out
forgetting what it was for.
still
breathe
come home
remember
long before any thought or feeling
of how to come together
in both mind and body
we remember
there is a balance borne between us
regardless of time, race or gender
breathe baby
breathe and come home to us
our home, our soul, our life
this good path of here and now
not your way my way
or the highway
the unio mystica, Love
the song and story of us
together is the only way
~ come home
11.22.2022
Cumberland Bay, New Brunswick
Poem & Photo © Michael Highstead