We were partnered together

Me & lion

Timidly

I place my gloved hand

Near your large

Paw

Where you have claws

I have hidden

Myself

In leather

I can feel the heat of the volcano

I did not ask to be

Here

When the explosion happened

–but it is happening

Apocolypsis–soul revealer

Truth-sayer

To practice dharma

It is best to make friends with

Apocolypsis

You need to know this.

Stillness.

It’s an invitation from the gods.

Perhaps from your soul.

As it calls you back to yourself.

Meet the sacred

Here

Standing in the sun

The four sides of your body

Face the four directions

It was a simple message

A remembering

That you can make

Of this life

An offering

Unburden

Is this what the heart most longs to do?

Release grief to rain, anger to flame, worry to wind

depression down into the ground