Transparent I become

I begin here, where I sit, 
with nothing here but sitting itself. 

And I begin here with nothing in me but beginning itself. 

For my aim in this moment is to come 
to the ground of what is within me 
and not dwell in the air where birds fly or where planets travel 
but to come to the earth of my being 
to the soil in which it roots itself and grows.

As I breathe in a full and whole breath, I sense the way in which the oxygen in it reaches every cell in the body, 
feeding it with sensation.

As I breathe out through sensation, 
I participate directly in the connection 
between the air of the planet and the nature of the body.