Facing East

Good luck?
Superstition?
Wisdom?

I picked up an instruction
that I never question
yet follow
year to year

When pachyderms
emerge from storage
take watch upon the wall

I orient their gaze
toward the rising sun

There is a wisdom within us that is more powerful than our despair. There is a movement toward health that our intellect can merely glimpse, once in a while. It is the same impulse that causes plants to face the sun, animals to take care of their young, people who say, “I never sweat,” to try a hot yoga class.
~excerpt from Meditations from the Mat by Rolf Gates

let
the
sun
shine
in

face
it
with
a
grin