The possibility of real relationship

I am beginning here 
with the understanding 
that nothing I have in this life actually belongs to me. 

I am here because my being, 
like all beings, has arisen by law. 

And I am here on the sufferance of much greater forces than myself. 

I come into a deeper 
and a more intimate relationship with the body 
with this question in front of me 
as a smal…