Your underwater breath

The knowledge I am seeking

cannot be found in books,

cannot be written,

cannot be thought

without turning thought inside out

to reveal the gossamer thread of its underpinning –

nothing but air.

Air.

So where shall I find such knowledge?

You find it in the water, I know.

Can I find it there, too?

I wonder.

I want to say

“take this body I won’t need it”

but who am I fooling?

In these cells 

is wisdom

or at least

something ancient,

tried and true

and without it where would I be?

Dead.

Instead,

perhaps I should ignite it

with your help

and see what I can see

in the blaze of its demolition.

The knowledge I am seeking

has been here forever,

but invisible to those who seek it.

Seek it I shall not.

Feel it in your underwater breath 

blowing through my heart

I shall.

- Joe Landwehr