Thank You

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Thank you.

For teaching me how to reach for my highest potential

For showing me how to let go of what's no longer needed

For demonstrating how to be in service to all life

My arms reach around the trunk of a mighty redwood

It would take several more humans to complete the circumference

For years, I made my pilgrimage 

Up into the forest

To sit at your base

To lay on the floor

Watching the dance of the canopy

Amazed by the stillness below

Seemingly unphased by the gusts above

I asked for your guidance

When I had exhausted my capacity for logic

And reached the edge of illusion

No longer willing to perpetuate the myth

If I just try harder, then I can solve this problem

And remain safely in a cocoon of self sufficiency

I come to you when I know I don't know

When your physical presence isn't 

Intimidating

You don't make me feel small

You remind my body that it is porous

Permeable

That the answers I seek do not live within the contours of flesh

They are everywhere 

And all I need, is to gently wrap my limbs around 

An antenna more powerful the intellect

Always reaching towards the heavens and the hells

To bring a balanced knowing

Communicating what needs to be said

Without words

In a voice that anyone can hear

There is no need to translate what you say

Just a responsibility to live it

To become the walking, singing, dancing

Manifestation of that which is rooted

That which has no feet or mouth

Because what you do is more profound 

Than any combination of syllables I might utter

Any choreography I may manifest 

Thank you.