The Swim

By Ashrei (Ima Sari Wisenthal)

Loon AI Art by Ashrei Ima Sari

When you repeat it every day,

Nature will endorse you,

God will send his other friends,

To come and to adore you.

A morning swim in northern lakes,

A routine unseen by others,

Connects you to the essence;

Your truth - one with the other. 

When you repeat, and stay attached,

All who swim come to explore you,

Yet one is braver than the rest - 

With strength and beauty, keeps enduring.

A voice so soothing when he calls,

Eyes, so sharp examine all,

Not who I am, but who my soul is, 

Face to face, arm-length apart.

A bloody eye, black and white feathers,

A connection reveals G-d's true intentions,

Instructions secretly given, on winds,

An angel or a loon - a swimmer's routine.

Another truth told in another story,

A sunrise, a loon, God's teacher - a bird,

Sensing towards this new direction, 

Freedom isn't won for all - there always was;

The one - a loon.