how to attend to the unaddressed business of filling up your soul go to the coast and hike in the opposite direction of every person racing the approach of dark. tell them you are not afraid of long shadows and coyotes hidden by fog. tell them you have come to replace urban conversation with the voice of cormorants and gulls, pacific waves breaking against sharp rock, turkeys sleeping in eucalyptus trees, owls calling out each other's names. tell them you were summoned by the grazing tulle elk raising young buck horns against the setting sun. tell them the seal in the surf told you to come, to watch how a body trusts the waters it's in, making a perfect arc as it leaps, and you wonder, laughing, laughing laughing, if it's for play or need. tell them you're not sure the answer but you're convinced the light that meets you as you walk is the light of your wildness, even in the eerie solitude of night as it steals day's breath, maybe especially because. tell them, as you watch stars shoot gratitude across your eyes, that your eyes are not your eyes, but the earth's, the ocean's, the wind's, the star's. tell them you're not hiking away from anything or anyone but toward the edge of a world edged in perfect darkness, a world you know as poetry, as home. . #pointreyes #tomalespoint #nofilter #poetry #ocean #fog #elk #pacific #sunset #magic #wonder #gratitude #grace #california #hiking #humanness #home #silvialcivar #thepoetrystore #imsofuckinglucky #writersofig #writersofinstagram #poetsofig #poetsofinstagram #poetry #poem #poet #poetsofinsta #writersofinsta #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetryofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Brnk3LHhmC0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=m5jswqk4a75v
