How does a part of the word leave the world?
     How can wetness leave water?

     Don't try to put out a fire
     by throwing on more fire!
     Don't wash a wound with blood!

     No matter how fast you run,
     your shadow more than keeps up.
     Sometimes, it's in front.

     Only full, overhead sun
     diminishes your shadow.

     But that shadow has been serving you!
     What hurts you, bless you.
     Darkness is your candle.
     Your boundaries are your quest.

     I can explain this, but it would break
     the glass cover on your heart,
     and there's no fixing that.

     You must have shadow and light source both.
     Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe.

     When from that tree, feathers and wings sprout
     on you, be quieter than a dove.
     Don't open your mouth for even a cooooooo.

     When a frog slips into the water, the snake
     cannot get it. Then the frog climbs back out
     and croaks, and the snake moves toward him again.

     Even if the frog learned to hiss, still the snake
     would hear through the hiss the information
     he needed, the frog voice underneath.

     But if the frog could be completely silent,
     then the snake would go back to sleeping,
     and the frog could reach the barley.

     The soul lives there in the silent breath.

     And the grain of barley is such that, 
     when you put it in the ground,
     it grows.

      Are these enough words,

     Or shall I squeeze more juice from this?
     Who am I, my friend?