Closer than a Heartbeat

I speak not the language of the intellect, that isn’t my way.
I travel the pathways of your nerves and enliven your senses.
I construct the fibers of your dreams and walk the corridors of your mind.

I am communication at the subtlest level –
My thoughts are your true desires.
I am in every corner of your experience…
expressing and guiding.

Hear me and I will ease your pain,
Respect me and I will show you the way.
Love me and you will love yourself and all the world around you.

Listen, I am the whisper in your feeling – my words are ever-present.
Listen – learn the language of the experience – You have known it from birth.

Listen, like an explorer in the wilderness,
Guided by the signals of nature – a turned leaf, a subtle yearning
– My voice will become louder when magnified by your awareness.

I speak through the body and well in emotion.
I penetrate your dreams and fuel your desires.

I am the essence,
The driving force of your existence
– Body, mind, spirit are all aspects of the whole.

My language is simplicity
Beyond intellectual translations that judge, complicate and define.
I flow, I transform…I am before time.

Catch me in the moment,
I have all the answers –
I cannot be saved for the future
or confined in the brain.

My environment is the moment
– it is there that I thrive.
Do not worry, I am in every moment,
available at all times ….
Closer than a heartbeat.

 - Michael Bailey