Hey, good folk. Inspired by something Kenrom said.
Just felt like givin' and hope you like it!

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"Flow"

Be,
as water is,
without friction.

Flow around the edges of those within your path.
Surround within your ever-moving depths
those who come to rest there --
enfold them,
while never for a moment holding on.

Accept whatever distance
others are moved within your flow,
Be with them gently
as far as they allow your strength to take them,
and fill with your own being
the remaining space when they are left behind.

When dropping down life's rapids,
froth and bubble into fragments if you must,
knowing that the one of you now many
will just as many times be one again.

And when you've gone as far as you can go,
quietly await your next beginning.

1982 (Rita & Noel MccInnis)


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I guess this poem speaks to me of the profound lonlieness we all carry -- "alone-together" -- while celebrating simultaneously (as we've got to), our comings and goings and the best that we have.

Connection is so ephemeral, so tricky, and I've been hurting of late for friends who are still "around" but have somehow
"moved on" (no longer mutually relating) -- I'm torn between wanting at times to feel hurt, and wanting *blessings* for them, and for me --

For more of same -- more of that bountiful "Chance" that brought them / brings you -- brings more "more", bringing the new.
Trusting that.

I want to "KNOW", all the time that love -- and I don't "get" to know -- but wow, I *do* get to know it SOME of the time.

I miss and love my friends. In a lonely / abundant universe -- even the ones I haven't met yet.

Alright, thazzit! Enough of that! All this "Flow" -- kinda makes ya have to pee, you know??

Hey, anyway, Life is pretty freakin' GOOD!

Blessings to you & see you on the water --

SpikeyGuy