One Breath, One Hunger! Poem by Eric Cockrell

if you've not heard
anything else that i've said...

look in the mirror,
and see yourself.
look at all others,
and see yourself.
look for God,
and see yourself.

look at yourself,
and see all of life.
look at yourself,
and see all those suffering.
look at yourself,
and see all others.

look at yourself,
and see God!

every thing you feel,
is being felt.
every thing you need,
needed by all.
every tear you cry,
on every face.
every prayer you pray,
a part of all prayer.

look to the earth,
and see yourself.
look into yourself,
and see the earth!
listen to the heartbeat,
of which you are part...
part of the whole,
of all that is life.

we are constantly being born,
and constantly dying...
death and birth, the same journey...
no beginning, no end...

the dream, the reality,
dead branches feed the fire...
darkness, and dawn,
one breath, one hunger!