View from a treetop

View from a treetop way up high from the tips of the leaves splayed out across the sky

The blue dessert above, open, serene and extending

The neighboring leaves, rustling and surrendering

Their movements conducted by the wind

Their music a gift to the air

Green and vibrant, circulating our breathing with care

Connecting us to the sun

Projecting life into our lungs

Selecting no one

Non-discrimination, one not more deserving of life than the other

A lesson, in each person, a sister and a brother

All inter-laced, each reflecting the same inner landscape

A family, a unit, a sangha

Only creating distance and discord by choice

Judgement and discrimination, causing separation

Only maintaining ignorance with discord of voice

Approaching another with hesitation

Turning pain into words, arrows of poison

Forgetting our breath, forgetting our mingling

Its time to remember, stop and look up at the tree

Breathe and release

Smile at another, feel the flood of inner peace

Speak in kindness, not in hate

Quiet the fear and seal the fate

The future is yours, a hidden gem inside you

The power sits in your words and awareness

Let go of the carelessness