Solitude

As I take stride after stride

along the remote mountain trail

even my monkey mind has finally stalled,

and peace consumes me to my very core.

Often, I park myself on a flat boulder,

jutting over the bank of the gushing stream

at one with the surrounding cacophony

of mixed sounds of bees buzzing, birds chirping,

squirrels scrabbling overhead

and the breeze whispering in the leaves

with not one human voice in the mix.

In silence, I rest reposed against a mighty oak.

Far from the maddening crowd that so often

consumes any hope of silence,

I find a rush of calming energy rising inward…

flowing outward to claim my gift of aloneness.

So valued is when one works, thinks,

or rests without disturbance.

Fully absent from distractions or scrutiny.

To sit in a deep flow in inner focus

to breathe

to be at one with that which has ever been

all of which is always present

knowing all will always be….

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