the one thing

Life is everywhere around you

Sprouting forth from

Big pots and little cups

Unused helmets and broken bottles

Life leaps and bubbles from you

Struggling to get out of

Its containments

In the warmth of your embrace

Fledgelings find safety

under your mindful gaze

Ever careful, ever watchful

No one will go astray

No one will stumble

And if they do,

you will catch them

Whatever you touch 

Flourishes and glows

For you nourish it

With all the sustained energy

Of a river that flows 

Down from a mountain

And flows and flows

Into a deep lake

At the base of the hils

Every day the lake grows

Inch by inch by inch

until it is straining

Cracking here and there

Threatening to burst

And sweep away everything 

That lies beneath it

It must trickle out

In streams and rivulets

so that it doesn't explode

And then when you say

There is this one thing 

That bothers me

I know

Exactly what you mean

You have everything to give

And nowhere to put it

And invent new receptacles

Every day.....