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