What if there is no ‘I’?
Does the water droplet regret merging
into the river, lake, ocean?
Each body has its own essence.
River
The river flows, ever gathering
and discarding, somewhere to go,
something to become,
directional movement.
The essence of river is purpose.
Lake
The lake sits in peace.
Changes are still taking place,
but stillness radiates. The lake is accepting,
forgiving, containing and replenishing.
Lake is the essence of reflection.
Ocean
The ocean waits and calls for mergence.
The ever-present mother, she beckons us
beyond our fears of the dark, the unknown,
the great oneness of all life.
We cannot fight it, her birth waters
spill out in our tears, evidence of her claim.
Her beauty mesmerizes the strongest of us,
even at the risk of being lost at sea.
The essence of ocean is destiny.
Destiny
Let me drop into river. Let the rivers of life
flow through me, the blood of the mother
driving me forward, keeping me alive
to play out my purpose—my soul’s story.
Let me drop into lake that I might access
the core of peace in my depths, no matter what storms
surround me. Let me learn to contain and forgive
in acceptance and true reflection of what is,
to be still enough to find the sources to replenish.
Let me drop into ocean. Let me pass through my fear
and bear in mind coming home not as loss, of this ‘I’ that I cling to,
but as revealing the greater ‘I’ that I never left.
Just as a droplet of water is revealed as ocean,
let me recall my wholeness.