Poetry & Art

Song of Body

The world may appear as a ghost

asking silly questions: “Who are you?”

and “What are you doing?”

It's only the body you can trust.

Body knows its needs

and proceeds directly to fill them.

Its greatest chorus of song:

smooth working systems.

Song of Spirit

We all know the body breaks down

and can fail completely,

pain and death just before the dawn.

What then can anyone say?

Hope’s a young man's song.

When you're old and crippled,

any song is a song of spirit,

taught and learned through struggle.

Spirit's song, a product of soul,

is the stronger song.