Under the Surface
My dog, great blue heron and me
Each looking, Perhaps
looking for the same wonder…
The movement of fish
under the surface
The sustenance of life itself
Oh Aren’t we all looking
For what we cannot see?
Just under the surface
Of our consciousness
Just under the surface
of our bodies
Just under the surface
of our hearts
Our aliveness, our sustainer 🌀
The Source of life-force energy
Oh how we all look
How we must look!
Yet the Spirit of Life
Our aliveness that
Ripples through all things
We never see with our eyes
We Only see the aliveness
Of others, of all-that-is
Playing out in the ordinary
The ordinary acts of the miraculous
Unseen rippling of which we are all a part
May we come to know in our looking
that we are all miraculous
If not through our own eyes then
through watching—
the rippling waves of another
Through seeing their dynamic ease,
their relaxed alert, awake, awareness
May we in our ordinary act of looking
come to feel our dynamic ease
May we see the reflection of our own miraculous
