Sharing
Isn’t always easy
She’d eat my food
I didn’t know at first
Or understand
A community mind
First trip to the grocery with her
Loading up with things I’d like
It’s been decades now
Sharing time
A place to shelter into
Sharing friends
They started sharing too
Filling my home with replacements
For much of what I’d left behind
Filling my circle with love
I give and give back and give away
Everything I need within reach
A call away
A text
We cycle gratitude
We circle around the debts we owe
Which do not cancel each other out
Life for life
Blood for blood
Soul for soul
This giving and receiving
Endless circle
Material things or wise words
Or simple presence
Gratitude rises
Gratitude overflows like a fountain
Gratitude streams over the edges
Softer
Smoother
Until we are luminescent rivers
Until we are the shimmering ocean
And you reading this
Are now caught up in an eddy
Maybe you will understand in a year
This vortex which has swept you upside down
Shaken you firmly
Stretched you out longer
Wound and unwound you
Until you are dizzy
Will place your feet firmly
On the path invisible
You walk on water
Miraculous
