Innocence

Nothing to fear

Your innocence of

Being alive, being here

In my path,

As much as I am in yours

Nothing to fear, here

Yet my body leaps,

Shutters and shakes

As my voice yelps,

shrieks and quakes

As my heart startles

Scares and escapes

As my spirit stills into

The Center of Grace

As I run in place

I flight, fright and freeze

All at once in deep confusion

Of your neutral presence

Your innocence of

Being alive, being here

Oh wild one, on your path

Forgive me for my confusion

May you teach me to discern

The difference between

Ignorance, uncertainty

and hate

Nothing to fear,

Yet fear itself—

The choices we might make

off our Centers of Grace