Charity Janisse

I found the place between tree branches and sky.
 I took a moment and climbed inside.
 I lost myself there and loved what came after the moment I lost myself there.
 I became peace.
 I became a branch high in the shadows of the tree. 
I became a wisp of air that blew through those branches.
 I was the dirt that the roots dug in and clung to,
 I was the roots enjoying the deep cool of the earth surrounding me.
 I found the place between tree branches and sky,
 I climbed inside and I stayed for the night. 
I saw my breath against the morning light
 and I thanked the universe for encircling me, 
somewhere within the shadow of it’s wing
 and allowing me a moment of peace. 
A moment of forgetting to be myself or anyone else in between… 
the dirt, the sky and the branches of that tree.

Charity Janisse