beat

life i think is short for
love-music-body-earth-adventure

i originally had work as one of the five essentials
but i think it is already covered
kids don't learn to run because you tell them to

sometimes the work is about establishing our pillars
to reflect more transparently into one's days

or maybe these pillars are more universal
and our work just an endeavor within one or another
and most particularly driven by love

love is that luscious chemistry thing sure
but as one expression of the inseparable big love
of which our community service longings also arise

and must inevitably extend to the world of spirit
by way of the greater community of our ancestors
to which we all belong

this community also includes the plants and animals
that grow up around us from this Earth
and rocks and gravity and all the joy
with which we get to play here

this particular love bond is so profound
it is is own realm

teaching us through all the bliss
disease pain and letting go it offers
birthing dying eating

the pondering of any one of which
is enough to immediately blow the mind

because of the unfathomable intensity of physical experience
the intimacy of the range of experiences we find
from violent to tender

along with the profoundness of forgiveness and reconciliation
such as when we are granted by the great love some healing

and the wisdom of rooting our most direct life-experience apparatus
feelings
deep within this body

one which we must find some responsibility toward

and soon extending toward those other bodies we have found
to bond with procreate nurture or labor over

along the way of our adventuring

the nature of experience on this Earth journey

from the moment of our arrival through fleshly gateway into light
from first step to last breaths
what is this time if not an intensely curious adventure

why do even the most staid so enjoy novelty and travel
if not for the adventure on this earth which may bring expanded love
and new feelings and sensations to play with

the final perhaps most odd pillar being music
although perhaps play is the better frame

for what is music if not a riotous celebration of our freedom
to make noise jump turn and bump
and make the body's cells stand on end

vocally vibrate something that means something to us
uplift community with dance and beauty
in a universal language known to all peoples

ultimately rooted in those internal rhythms
beating to keep us alive

and shared with the greater earth community
through which we adventure in the generous series of moments we are gifted
in autonomous bodies capable of great ecstasy
activated by an ever resounding beat

love