The Greatest Gift of Life

Photo Credit: Delphina Raven, Monica Meadows, Purcell Mountains, BC, Canada

The Greatest Gift of Life
Is the Magic of the
Multiverse planetary cosmos
The Blue Dot
Aka Mother Earth

In our relentless pursuit
For more of 
The materialistic and mechanistic
The pretension and incapability of playing Creator
Of the Dead and Undead

We forgot how to
Listen, Feel, Look, Sense, Breathe
The Magic, Mystery, and Meaningness of Life
That is within us
That surrounds us

We forgot our
Deep Connection via
Roots to the planet earth and Water of Life 
Beneath our bare feet
Reach to the Skies above our heads

We have divorced from
That Exquisite Balance of Mother Earth
Our Ultimate Teacher and Elder
While we burn in the Hell
Of our relentless, mindless pursuit for excess

Blind to the Ultimate Gift of Life
We are the walking blind
The walking dead
Obsessed with
Living within four walls of artificiality

Yet

It’s all there
If we dare to cultivate 
Humility
Open our eyes, ears, senses, mind
To connect deeply 

With the Greatest Gift of Life

Gift of a Giving Heart

Photo Credit: Delphina Raven, Balfour, BC, Canada

A heart
No matter how brittle
How broken, how scarred
Somehow heals up

When she gives the gift
Of giving
Of nurturing
some more

At the same time that she gives
While the gift of giving
Is unwanted
It pains the most

Yet

When she stops giving
Is also when the heart
Breaks some more
And tears start flowing again

No amount of tears shed
No amount of self-rejection
No amount of self-depreciation
Can patch that up again

Until she gives the gift of a
Giving Heart
That it begins healing again
Creating the telltale scars

Hopefully received this time
And the gift of the giving heart
Heals the pain around
One earthling at a time