a duet with nature

As I step into you;

acknowledging, observing, listening,

your green tentacles wrap around my feet,

and your gentle, cool breath encircles me.

I close my eyes,

and allow you to send my body into movement.

This unusual duet,

driven by your sound, texture and unexpectedness,

takes me on a journey

that seems to blur the lines between me and you.

I open my eyes,

and my mind becomes flooded with thoughts.

'Why are you, my lifelong companion, treated as my inferior?

With neglect and disrespect?'

As I open the door

and sit down in front of a bright light of electrically charged signals and sounds,

that now feel so irrelevant to you,

a sense of detachment sinks in,

and I once again,

long to step out,

in attempt to blur the lines

between me and you.

- Íris