We lean out into the insubstantial

Fingertips brushing the drifting souls

That float beyond our reach.

Reach out further into the busy void

Where everything’s falling away

A light is shining beneath our feet

A loving warning runs through roots

We try to channel up and out

But sometimes our beams are weak

And only catch shadows. We’re rooted in love

But impoverished soil falls away into dust

Dry and thin and parched, our feet

Slip. Then catch and ground and push us up

To reach further, reach further, keep snatching at any

Single dear falling leaf

Hold my ankles, Friend

Hold on to the Earth

Hold on as we dangle out over the void

We Outreach