My childhood Born and died on a hook called quietness In the stillness growing with contemplative reverence Until meadow flowers and cattails calm Burst forth with artistic being again And now, having been adopted and reborn on the same mountain breeze My perspective has changed me entirely To adopt the sun as quite my own And in moonlight see, to forgive the Father For as dirt is dead and dies eternally So the seed breaths quietly, living on in life and death To reflect the stillwaters on the aspiring breeze It ends as it began Quietly