You Have a Mountain Inside You

Inspired by Jaime C.

Be there, she said.

Be kind, she said.

Do not be wary of showing your vulnerable side

--Allow.

When you do this

there will be great payoff

When you allow, you share the parts of you that

need to be shared and long to be heard.

Your life is intertwined with mine

we are one.

I don’t mean this in the coupling way of

we were two, and now we are one

I mean this in the Ram Daas, Yoga Sutras,

Great Inner Knowing way

of All Are One.

When you don’t sleep and the mind is weary,

this is the best time for creation.

When you are so tired that your soul says, wait--

what are we doing here?

Why are you here, in this little box?

Don’t you think it’s time to find a bigger box?

Don’t you think it is time that you show

them that you have a rainbow inside you?

Don’t you think--

don’t you feel--

Isn’t it ridiculous to think that each time you write a poem it must be a masterpiece,

when in fact only maybe every tenth or twentieth one will have one good line?

How many times do we need to do this now?

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It is time again. We shall do it until it no longer needs to be done,

which is when we pass on.

The idea that we can ever stop creating ourselves, our lives, recreating ourselves,

is false.

We are learning there are false dichotomies everywhere and when we accept that

we will be better for it.

The little bird on the mountain, with her scarf, passing by every 100 years,

after so many passes that she wears the mountain away,

that is how many tries we get at this one Wild and Precious life

So if ever you think that you get one try at something, just laugh at yourself and

remember

you have a rainbow inside you

and a little bird that is flying under it

around it

through it

to make her song heard.

And her red scarf will someday be left on that mountaintop

and your soul will fly away free.