After Another

Don’t be defeated by the Rain,

or let winds stop your movement.

Lean into forces that push you back. 

Keep going. 

Keep going.

Hold your bag close to your body.

Don’t let nature take it back too soon.

The gifts you carry are for others,

from others, 

valuable only to others.

Watch

Listen

Learn

Rest where others rush.

Work when others laze.

Care for what’s kicked.

Cry amidst voices of anger.

Shout for those invisible in sobs.

Be foreign. 

Be forgotten.

Die in the leap of living.

If you cannot find

a thatched house

beneath a meadow pine, 

this body will serve as

enough.

by jerry gordon

6.5.13