I will live as you
February 19, 2009
I Will Live as You
A few years ago, after a prompting from my friend Skye Faris, I took some time with what was precious to me. I did that by writing and a phrase came as I was writing to myself.
I will live as you.
So I spent some time writing to this part of me.And this is what came the first day.
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I will live as you
and this means I will not look for “more” to come,
or different.
I will live as you and I will live as I.
I will ask for what I want.
This moment is enough
because it is your moment.
This path I walk, going where fate would have me,
is a good path because it’s your path
All my doubts were only wondering
if it was OK to walk as you.
This day is a good day
because you’re in it.
The struggle I have is good
because it’s a struggle for you
and I honour it.
The self that you are is the self
I love that you are.
This moment is a place for you
whatever has happened.
I will live as you
as an ongoing revelation.
I am settled as you
secure in no need to do anything
forced or wicked.
Is it OK to just be me?
Yes, it’s OK.
As if I could add to my height
as if I could figure out this world
as if my opinions needed to be important to anybody else
as if I didn’t know better
as if salvation wasn’t in the present
as if it wasn’t spring or gonna be.
I will live as you
This moment is important
because it is your moment.
This moment is holy
because it’s yours.
This not reaching works for me
because it is your effortless expansion.
This uncertainty
is a good place to experience the world.
This movement is perfect
though no one sees.
The depths have always spoken
their quiet joy into the silence.
Always they say,
how beautiful.
I will live as you and
there will be peace
and everything will be the first time
I will live as you including the dark shadow
and the dungeons.
I will live as you not knowing what comes next.
I will live in you without a project.
Just for your own sake, without one plea
I shall live as you.
This is enough.
It is peace to live as you,
wanting nothing but this moment,
knowing this moment is your gift.
