Know I Am With you

My child,

As faith and the certitude & strength it brings

Is in such short supply in this dark & confused time,

I will send you signs that even an eyeless cave-fish could not miss.

Did I not bend that thin streamer of night-cloud

Through a trio of right-hand turns and then 

Speed it across the face of that full Hawaiian moon for you?

I will give you signs that penetrate

The mundane scrim of things --

Did I not send that meteor storm 

Across the volcano's night-sky, 

Carving a hole in the earth's heavens 

To reveal other heavens beyond?

I will turn the world upside down

And shake loose the change in

The pockets of your soul.

Did I not salute you with 

A synchronized squadron of manta-rays

That morning off the Wailea beach?

At Ahihi

Did you not see the lava-tube dormitory

Full of slumbering sharks?

Did you miss the spinner dolphins that

Circled you and your paramour

As your clumsy land-adapted bodies

Canoodled in the waters of La Perouse Bay?

At the Jungfrau,

Did I not give you a hawk, hunting,

Where no prey was to be had

But your doubt?

Have I not brought you safely back 

From every harebrained precipice

From which you've opted to dangle?

Miracles are the weave!

Sharpen your vision down to the place where

When you unwrap a packet of the mundane,

You perceive the grains of the miraculous pouring out.

When you learn to look with such eyes as these,

You will know that each stitch of the world shines

With the magic your ancestors kept as companion,

And you will know that I am with you always.

Move with strength and grace

In both body and mind,

Shine with humor,

Suffer with dignity,

Persevere with courage,

Dance with passion,

Let failure spur renewal,

Love with ardor...and acceptance,

Feel your mortality, and

Let the eventuality of death

Animate your living with beneficent ferocity.

Watch with your best eyes,

Listen with your best ears,

Open your heart, and know:

I was with you before your beginning,

I am with you now and always will be, 

Even beyond the end of earthly things.