And sitll,

after all this time,

the sun never says to the earth,

“You owe me.”

Look what happens

with a love like that.

It lights the Whole Sky.

~Hafiz

forgetting how, just asking why…

inquiry for today~ where will you turn for hope?

how we show up….

I will close my eyes and say it:

Here. Here I am. Here I am with you.

Here is all of me. And here we are.

Here. Inside this blinding presence.

Here. A constant call in a moving world.

Here. All of it.

Here. Here.

Humbly listening towards home. 
~Alexis Pauline Gumbs