breathing in
I smile
[lungs rattling, terrorist bugs at war with antibiotics, cough like a dying camel,
green goo by the spittoon-full, aching chest, watery eyes]
breathing out
I smile
[silence, stillness, serenity, pristine perfect, incorruptible, immovable,
unknowable Awareness – – – utterly unaffected]
breathing in, breathing out
being breathed
and
being bugged
I smile
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A deep bow to my Dharma namesake and inspiration, Yeshe Tsogyal