Sidewalk Meets the Sky

A Poem About Love and Everything and Some Pictures

Little Moments of Dance

Bee dances in flower

Sidewalk meets sky

Mirabeau Ceiba

Alana Fairchild

Letting go of earlier

When energetics

Felt like they were ripping me apart

And all I could do was cry

My own humming

Light growing stronger

Spirit

Heart

Growing stronger

Om Mani Padme Hum

I Chalk

May All Beings Thrive

I Invoke Grace

For All to Receive

The Grace

We Need

To Move Into a Space

Where we can Receive Life’s Goodness

Without Taking

Where we Can Celebrate Life’s Goodness

Instead of Feeling Like Existence is giving is a Raking

It is a Daring act to Pray

May All Beings Thrive

When most people are just trying to Survive

There are visible things that threaten survival

And also invisible things

There are walls that are made of tech

What the heck!

There are walls of misunderstanding

There are walls of censorship

Where its hard to get a transparent understanding

There are walls we put around our own hearts

Because they’ve been bruised or tormented or we ourselves

Misunderstood

And thought it wasn’t safe to love

And didn’t realize

Love is the only safe place to be

According to 1st Corinthians 13

It’s the only spiritual gift that lasts for eternity

And Love is love

Whether you are a Christian

A Jew

A Sufi

Or no religion suits thee

Love is love

Love never calls love what love is not

Just try to manipulate people into accepting their plot

Love does not exploit or harm

Or treat sacred human beings like a project to hypnotize

With charm

Love is not need

It’s rather the willingness to forego a perceived need

If meeting it a certain way wouldn’t honor the one who is loved

It feels and senses and celebrates the sacred in the so-called other

And would never want to harm or exploit, extract or smother

Love supports the flourishing of all that it loves

And we deserve our own love

As well as to recognize the same is True for All that God Loves

To Receive

To Give

To Breathe

To Be

To Buzz

To Fly

To Root

To Love Who You Truly Are

Is an act of Love

That Ripples Out

An Act That takes Courage in this World

May you Thrive

May you Flourish

May you Flourish

And Thrive

May you find the Joy

That makes being Fully Human

And fully filled with the Holy Spirit

The Divine Breath that breathes you

Come ALIVE!

May all the visible and invisible walls that keep love out come down

May healthy energy pathways help us move in harmony

With our True Selves

And One Another

Let Effortless Bliss

Find me

Let Effortless Healing

Release from me all that is no longer mine to carry

May I no longer tarry in old ways

Letting go of my clinging hold to old ways of being that no longer serve

I observe

Them fall with infinite compassion

And grace

Like softly falling leaves

Colored brilliantly

From all I have experienced in this place

Crumple

Turn to brown

The more dead they are

The closer they are to feeding the new round

Life is already lifing

And nurturing her Next Birth

Listening to the Divine

As our Guiding Sound

Love yourself

Sweet Child of God

And remember

There is One Self

No Self

All

Beyond

Dancing Us

Into Unique

Songs

To Play

In a Symphony

Beyond

What has been Played before

Open Your Pure Hearts

Door

To Thy True

Inner

Whole

Our Totality

Honor

Love

Cherish

And Lovingly Adore

~ Alicia Kwon