Silence
Sometimes my wisdom,
my deepest understandings
come in the midst of my silence.
they do not come when I am speaking,
but rather when I am silent,
like following the urge from within
to wake up out of a deep sleep
and go to the bathroom.
It comes from this deep wisdom
we see even in infants who
know to suck on a nipple
and be fed.
We see it in the ways
salmon tend to know
to swim upstream
or the things our bodies
tend to know how to do
without instruction.
Sometimes it is in the
silence, that we receive
the guidance and inspiration
of the Universe.
It comes when we give
the Universe our undivided attention
and exist in silence.