To Be

Behold the splendor
Of your broken flesh.
Feel it surrounding
Your faint awareness.
Your whole world pulses,

Can’t but be pulsing
For you to be here,
And we guarantee
You’re breathing, right now,
You’re feeling, right now,

You’re aware you are,
However faintly,
Right now, a throbbing
Churning and pulsing
Being as you read

Or listen or stare
Into inner space,
Recalling these words.
Right now, you’re breathing,
Right now, you’re pulsing,

Right now, the whole globe
Of whatever wreck
Your body is lives
With you living it.
Behold your splendor.