Connection

I run fluid, river,

flowing between solid banks,

spiral connecting

center and leading edge.

Like Buddha, I 'touch earth':

I emerge from Earth, and re-enter Earth.

I Am the universal Mother He invokes.

His Bodhi Tree embodies Me,

Tree of Life. (I Am Maya,

voluptuous Tree Goddess,

Mother of the Buddha.)

Lightning rod,

I attract lightning.

Rising to meet it, mate it,

I ground its fertile energy.

I Am free to move

because I Am firmly rooted,

centered in Myself.

I include you.

I Am the ground of Being.

Figure-ground,

I elude you: not this, not this,

trees and the forest you fail to see. 

I shake the roots, not just the branches.

I look for trouble and it comes to Me,

gathering like a storm.

I radiate, all-pervading, into space,

every plane a new akido:  challenge,

and cause for celebration!

© Tamara Rasmussen 2018