Who Took the First Breath?

Who took the first breath?
And who the last?
Who knew first the plants’ generosity
Enlivening the animal world?
Like Noah’s ark made of wood,
The earth is made of green things
And all the animals mothered by the breath of its greenness.
The green world patiently takes in our exhales;
Every word you speak is appreciated by the trees.
We owe our lives to all the worlds – seen and unseen.
Every breath is taken against the background of
Worlds feeding worlds feeding worlds.
The deeper language of being riding in and out with every breath.
The grandeur of planetary gas exchange
The ground of being passing in and out, through and through,
This life of air is the life we share.

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