Sorrow and Joy

These are the days of impending
Watching the unraveling and the uncaring
The hospicing commencing

The days of waking to our seperation 
Imagined exceptionalism
The false stories of who we are

Reaching back, way back, for rootedness
Connecting to birds, the waves on the shore
Slowly unfreezing and being rewoven into it all

Returning to the richness of love
Encompassing nature, cosmos and each other
From bucket lists to responsibilities

Embracing sorrow and regret, together
Summoning who we truly are to come forward
Through the overwhelming ache of body and heart

Settling into feeling it all
The hurt, the love and grief, the immenseness
The sorrow and joy, the awe

Alive