Flow (March 1998)

Be, as water is,
without friction.

Flow around the edges of those
within your path.
Surround within your ever-
moving depth those
who come to rest there –
Enfold them, while never for a
moment holding on.

Accept whatever distance
others are moved
within your flow.
Be with them gently
as far as they allow your
strength to take them, and fill
with your own being the
remaining space when
they are left behind.

When dropping down life’s
rapids, froth and bubble into
fragments if you must,
knowing that the one of you
now many will just as many
times be one again.

And when you’ve gone as far
as you can go, quietly await
your next beginning.

– Rita and Noel McInnis