Four Feet

I always thought in the loop of Mind, there would only be one set.  One set to traverse that which is foreign: their canals, streets, escalators, lifts, pathways, harbors, beaches, their stairways, trains, cobblestone footpaths.  Happily I shook out my own raincoat, rolled my own bundles of clothing, put one of everything and none of some in to a rucksack…always just enough like a wrist in its sleeve.

Happily I trained in the way of slight, a penny, a fraction, a hair, walking one foot in front of the other, turning sideways for the squeeze, speaking in whisper, tucking in to a twin sheet.  Everything came in like a dream and manifested itself in subtle hues of grey; not a soul to question my motivations; no one, to put bet on theirs. 

The world my oyster, and I was on hunt for the pearl, slipping around on all the white fleshy waves, losing myself in the crevices and then cresting again, slipping back down and climbing back up.  The game was enough on my own, was enough amusement for one.  Only in the dips did I feel the loneliness of this brand of freedom and in those mere pockets I calculated to exactness the superiority of solitude, the joy in subtle suffer.

But now:

I skip steps in huffing giggles to the sound of another set, knuckle to knuckle.  Our bags, only baby rhinos could match.  The backpack transforms in to proper luggage.  Nothing slim in the way of experience. 

An indulgent sovereign of love

A jeweled goddess for her queenliness

A lotus cushion for the floating

Brow to brow from courtship to consort

Milk and honey dress my tea. 

There is a ‘Beyond Liberation’.  There is a greater than 1.  There is 2.  My innards unfurl, my tissue opens, cells multiply as the bundle expands, and there becomes two of everything and room for all.  Bounty.

The grey becomes the shadow it is meant to be while we unpack the colors endlessly.

This is a golden love.

 We wander temples, walkways and railways, crowned, bellies full of blessings.  The same oyster, the same pearl but there are four feet now instead of two.