Our World Poem by Lonnie Hicks

The humming bird stood still
and raised it's wings waiting.

I drew my breath
and gave a gentle breeze
and it flew away.

A ripple from a dropped leaf
lands gently on the pond
and wavy sweet
rows flow
making tiny circles
to the center of the pond.

I touch a single rose
and it purrs.
.
I draw my breath
and exhale
deep into your lungs;

where mix
all things
between us.

All life is touch
and breaths offered.

All life
is gentle given
or badly rough.

All life is mixed
between the us
and the not us.

These exchanges
make up
what we know
as the World.

Be a gentle breather
not the badly rough.