Hymn to the Sacred Body of the Universe - Drew Dellinger

[Lawrence Robinson]

Hymn to the Sacred Body of the Universe
 

Let's meet

at the confluence

where you flow into me

and one breath

swirls between our lungs

 

Let's meet

at the confluence

where you flow into me

and one breath

swirls between our lungs

 

for one instant

to dwell in the presence of the galaxies

for one instant to live in the truth of the heart

the poet says this entire traveling cosmos is

"the secret One slowly growing a body"

 

two eagles are mating--

clasping each other's claws

and turning cartwheels in the sky

grasses are blooming

grandfathers dying

consciousness blinking on and off

all of this is happening at once

all of this, vibrating into existence

out of nothingness

 

every particle

foaming into existence

transcribing the ineffable

 

arising and passing away

arising and passing away

23 trillion times per second--

when Buddha saw that

he smiled

 

16 millions tons of rain are falling every second

on the planet

an ocean

perpetually falling

and every drop

is your body

every motion, every feather, every thought

is your body

time

is your body,

and the infinite 

curled inside like

invisible rainbows folded into light

 

every word 

of every tongue

is love

telling a story to her own ears

 

let our lives be incense

burning

like a

hymn to the sacred body of the universe

 

my religion is rain

my religion is stone

my religion reveals itself to me in sweaty epiphanies

 

every leaf, every river, every animal,

your body

every creature

trapped in the gears of corporate nightmares,

every species made extinct

was once your body

 

ten million people are dreaming that they're flying

junipers and violets are blossoming

stars exploding and being born

god is having deja vu

I am one elaborate crush

 

we cry petals as the void is singing

you are the dark that holds the stars

in intimate distance

that spun the whirling, whirling world into existence

 

let's meet at the confluence

where you flow into me

and one breath swirls between our lungs.

 

	- Drew Dellinger
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