Desert Dweller

What separates body from spirit?
where is the distinction 
between living and dying?

Seas are both waves and water,
waves and water,  distinct yet inseparable.
What differentiates waves from water?
Rolling rising waves are water,
when broken on shore, they are still water.

Humans are both body and spirit
body and soul, distinct yet inseparable.
When the body is broken,
doesn’t it also injure the spirit?
At birth, with infinite possibility, 
we are human.
When broken on the wheel of life, 
we are still human.

Is there a land where neither sorrow
nor doubt prevail?
A land that error cannot enter,
where conflict,
life and death no longer exist?

Standing firm, the heart melts,
runs into streams,
which become rivers that run into seas,
oceans where waves break upon the shore.

Waves and water unique yet inseparable.

© 2025 Bruno Talerico 
Stafford challenge 210/365.
Inspired by songs of Kabir.