In relationship
there is no joining,
no parting.
It is the strengthening,
the weakening.
of the universal one, the divine,
the strands of the web.
We are all part, all part of each other,
physically present, spiritually flowing.
To be with this, is to be with that, to
be with you.
To feel as we part, the sadness, is to remember the joy,
the joy of our collaboration for the essence that is us all.
Not starting, not ending, but continuing for the
betterment of our cosmic interconnection.
Thank you for entering my heart, words do not suffice.
I bow to your Buddha nature.
—Keith Knapp, friend of Prairiewoods
spider web image by Joni Reed Cooley