Something Beautiful: This Holy Ground

Some say, this earth journey is only

a sorrow, a sleep and a forgetting.

I say there is more…

Being with you, being in nature,

I’m filled with something beautiful.

Ten thousand poems could be written

and still there would be more to see, to hear, to feel

of the beauty in the world, in you..

You say you feel ordinary.

You say, “That’s just what I feel,

That’s just who I am…”

Yet your beauty seeps in...

Do you see your own beauty?

Do you see how you shine?

Do you see how precious your love is?

Mother Earth calls us to witness the quiet beauty

in everything. We walk upon her receiving an infusion

of her ethereal presence. She teaches us

endings and beginnings meld into one,

the effortless wisdom of release.

She teaches us how to see,

a tree not afraid of bending, always rooted,

a flower opening into selfless beauty,

the red canyon, deepening into desire,

the crystalline light of ocean, moon, stars,

reflected in your eyes,

the cosmos circling above and beyond,

as it mirrors timelessness inside us.

She teaches us to feel, to breathe…

fragrances of earth,

one scent opening the senses

into an entire kingdom of nature.  

Whoever you are, breathe it in.

You belong to this holy ground.

She calls us to witness in ourselves

the flow of the river giving way to grace,

the endurance of the mountain girding us for what is to come,

the cry of the wolf, calling us into solitude,

the innocence of our hearts, yearning deep

to touch the heights somehow we know are waiting for us.

The journey ever beckons..

In each awakened moment, in each living detail

the angel’s wings are revealed. 

Whoever you are, you belong

to this holy ground.

© Sophia Murphy