What It Gives

Did you get out to the wilderness

away from it all out in the wild
apart from the environment
you tend so well but wears you out

and claim a place on which to stand

from which to survey this sacred land

and allow yourself a mortal awe

enamored of all that you now saw

and find yourself just reckoning

in magic leaps mere mental feats

of overmind outside confines

the way the land does lilt and lie

and stretches ever toward the sky

until you'd become a sentient part

of life's indivisible living heart

and notice the air as it flows by

suggesting you see with an inner eye

and as you looked you knew all is well

true and clear you're freed from your shell

free to be whom you now become

with no one place where you are from

containing all that you now see

no difference between it and thee

the stillness being all that lives

the silence bringing what it gives?

Larry Piltz