thank you for your stillness

thank you for your stillness, brother

for your patience

for your steadfastness

while i straighten out my thinking

thank you for not ripping it ("me") to shreds

for surely i would have retreated

and fortified its threads

so justified and necessary

for this cold world

thank you for the shining light

that glows through the veil

through the fog

even on the wettest days

thank you for the humbleness

that holds not one claw ready

to prick my story

just the completely quiet

silence

the open space

the stillness of the night

the brilliance of the stars

shooting

falling

crumbling away over and over and over again

showers of light

all the while

the veil is slowly unsewn

joy of stars

never disrupted for a moment

in the dance

of creation

leaps

and bounds

and tiny increments

always

in humble recognition

wholly without opposition

rising

and falling

always resting

resting

resting

in perfect stillness,

defenselessness

the veil

falls

the stillness calls

everything

to silence