A million more.

There is a dam placed between an endless valley and endless ocean

The ocean is filled with clear, beautiful endless water,

Once in awhile the dam opens and water bursts forth,

Soaking the dry ground with life

A force so strong it rushes forth with a lions roar

As a destructive wave blows through a valley,

But the valley is endless as well.

The dam closes, because we are scared to let too much out.

That feeling of power, of pure release was well… momentary.

We must keep our endless supply of clear water to look at in awe

And turn to look at the valley, waiting for it to need it again.

Standing on that dam, on the brink of endless and endless

I am that valley, I am the ocean and I am the flowing.

I am that softly soaked ground, the sun shining down and the distance in between.

I am the budding flower,

Reaching vibrantly up with life

I am the dirt that soaks our roots,

With the rain that we poured down

On us to let ourselves grow,

Push through ourselves,

Open and bloom in a field of a million more.

I am the wind sweeping that field,

Nudging you gently,

In the field of which we are, in which we grow.

As I turn to a cold August chill and

Our petals fall to the ground,

Then we are simply time softly laying there,

Slowly disintegrating

As rain and snow covers us, by spring we are gone,

Into the ground, into ourselves,

To nourish our roots and bud once again

And push through ourselves

To bloom in a field of a million more.

We are the field in a field of a million more

We are the flood inevitably in store

We are that dam blocking the way

And we are the man opening the flood gates

We are the vast ocean

The waves rushing motion

We are that endless earth

And the flowers driving force

Were the sun and all that space in between

All that we can see and what remains unseen

We are everything, everything my friend

And nothing but a circle of many beginnings and ends

We are everything that has happened and everything in store,

We are life, we are love

And a million more.

-Jake Grant Gabriel