Surviving Has Made Me Crazy
"I eat flowers now and birds follow me.
I open myself like an inlet
and dolphin energies
swim on through.
Wherever I go, I remain silent
and the silence begins to glow
till one eye in the light
outsees two in the dark.
When asked, I now hesitate
for there are so many ways
to love the earth.
I water things now constantly:
water the hearts of dead friends with light,
the sores of the living with anything warm,
water the skies with a thousand affections
and follow the voices of animals
into grasses that move like ocean.
I eat flowers now and birds come.
I eat care and things to love arrive.
I eat time and as I age
whatever I swallow grows timeless.
I eat and undie
and water my doubts
with silence
and birds come."
Surviving Has Made Me Crazy
Mark Nepo's poem on the mystery of loving the earth.