It Is All There

Stop. Stop trying to make something happen.

Enter the room and wait.

Allow the thing to be what the thing is --

Sit and be still. Observe with all of your kind attention –

Be fierce in focus.

Breathe and watch for beginnings of breath in the other.

This is patience.

Until something happens on its own.

Allow it to emerge.

For the clay to take its own form. To tell you what it is.

For the wood to reveal its own carving. For the body to move only from the curling ache to do so.

Allow life to emerge.

Allow the hand, from the inside, to reach through chest and rip through sinews. You will hear the softly raging

heartbeat.

If you listen.