To offer freedom

There's a moment here with me now 
where I can stop 
and allow the world as it is in me 
to drop away, 
to deepen the relationship with the body, 
to remember every cell 
just as they remember me. 

I come back to this community in wholeness, 
in the recognition that there is a whole body here 
and a whole mind, 
not separated but together. 

And I can …