Listen.

“Your brain keeps you safe.

Your gut saves your life.”

—Omisade Burney-Scott

“Real safety is your willingness to not run away from yourself.”

—Pema Chödrön 

Listen for the softening

and what opens

just before you open your mouth.

There are nameless directions

each unheard of until

from here you’re looking back.

Life echoes through the

pathways of time.

It is an illusion to

know,

but the feeling of its

sound, turning over

in the bowl of your body,

is the only safety we may ever have.

Listen closely.