A Prayer to Save the World

Your body loves you
Loves the world of birds and trees
Loves to lie down with it
In life as in death.
The world would gladly let you be organic,
full of love and naturally perfected abundance.
The body shields you.
Your skin lines a purpose in every fold.
Every bulge out of place
Is touchable love, hurt, grief, guilt
a magnum holding onto itself
to unleash only butterthoughts
into the world.
In an ultimate act of forgiveness,
the body hides in the mind,
hides the world in itself,
dreamstepping into present.
Here is the true desire to be,
forever simplifying itself into
the single-syllable language of
breath.