Big exhale.
Drop the shoulders
and take that weight off
for a little while.
Noise in your head
gives way to the sound
of the kettle boiling
and the birds in the tree outside.
When was the last time
you truly
disconnected?
From you?
From them?
From this?
From everything?
Been too long,
just listening
to your tinnitus.
Ears ringing
and the present,
dull and impotent.
Time to be
baptized again.
Go back to the earth,
the sky,
and the wild.
There has been
no comfort for you here,
and what is here
you have lost touch with.
Time to take the layers down.
Disappear into the forest
for a little while.
Chase down
that mountain child again
and know clean air,
clean water,
and freedom.
Big exhale.
Let’s go.
DJR – 2023
