Breathe Out

"The worst thing we ever didwas put God in the skyout of reachpulling the divinityfrom the leaf,sifting out the holy from our bones,insisting God isn’t bursting dazzlement through everything we’ve made a hard commitment to see as ordinary, stripping the sacred from everywhere to put in a cloud man elsewhere,prying closeness from your heart.The worst thing we ever didwas take the dance and the songout of prayermade it sit up straight and cross its legsremoved it of rejoicingwiped clean its hip sway, its questions, its ecstatic yowl,its tears.The worst thing we ever did is pretend God isn’t the easiest thing in this Universe available to every soul in every breath."— Chelan Harkin[ Art • “Breathe Out” by Dániel Taylor ]