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…