let go of everything

painting by Harry Moody
Look up, I am bathing in the clouds.
See me bathe.
High above this long, green valley,
High above the river.
The air is cool, and I am clean.
I have wanted to be clean for so long now.
My body is below,
lying still and dirty on the ground.
I can hear my wife crying,
but i am rising.
up past the clouds now.
Free.
Clean at long last…
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