As/Is







5.30.2004




poem #182


1.

I take refuge
in people

Share life
my fellow pilgrims

I am
willing to walk

a dangerous path
if we walk side by side


2.

Traditionally
prostration

is a gesture
of surrender

lowest
of the low

nothing
an empty vessel

Take refuge
in the sangha
of surrender

Take refuge
in life as it is
of life

spiritual
or mystical

life
as refuge