Blind Walk

Walk with me

Wounded healer

Bodhisattva

Eyes closed

We may see

To the core

The body we have

The weight we carry

A stepwise opportunity

Release to ground.

Step with me

First with fear

Then with care

Finally with play.

Quick glimpse

A few blind paces

Open our eyes

Where did we come?

Walk with me

Tentative explorer

Find our bat sense

Aware ourselves

Of fear carried

Imagination's dark side

Hastening our step

Retreating from contact

Can we make a pact?

Let fear go this step

Dedicate the next to it.

Did we just live?

Walk from heart

Walk from Hara

Foot: lift, move, place

Foot: lift, move, place

Walk with me

Recycled being

Ground pushes

skeleton to sky

Ground pulls

corpus to dust.

Walk with me

Architectural marvel

Bones wide open

Pulleys counterweights

Proprioceptive tensegrity

Feel these

Stepwise tremors

From heel to skull

Where do vibrations stop?

What do we hold there?

Let tummy out

Release kneehips

Relax shoulders

Drop jaw to ground

How does body feel?

Is it possible that

Body walks lighter?

Treads softer?

How tall it stands?

What does it conduct?

Trip with me on a crack.

Go ahead, tense up.

Where do we hold that last trip?

How long ‘til body expects nothing, again?

Walk with me, blind, straight

Towards that scary thing

Find dark within, hold it's hand

‘Til we can't bear, our eyes burst open

Did we walk as far as we thought?

Or was fear walking us?

Did we lean away from it?

Smile through eyelids

Beam goodwill innocently

without knowing response

Smile or laugh or ignorance.

Walk with me

Lover of beings

Leave the gaze

Leave the he-she

Think of me-me

And contact deeper

Stand with me, arms out

At a concert by a lake

As we are shoved

In the worst way

By unconscious hordes

Don’t look their way

Let’s hold our ground

Calmly, persistently,

For all beings

Who deserve to exist

In this little space given

Through darkness

We are enlightened

We shiver awake

Infinite sensation

Walk with me

Eyes wide shut

One foot, another

Slowly, we can

Let the hordes

Alter their course

Around us

As we peacefully

Express our essence

As we ceaselessly

Bumble in the dark

Blindly walking bodies,

We advance confidently in the direction of our dreams.