Relationships...

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We often discuss relationships yet often fail to realize that we are related to a lot more than just our own families... This is a poem that I wrote based on the teachings of Little Crow, a teacher of the Lakota Oral Tradition who passed a few years ago in Minn. where he went to be with his people. I am hoping that after reading it you will look at all of the things that you are related to... and will share them in your own words or perhaps talk about what is the quality of the relationship that you have with everything that is... Do you think much about relationships? I am related. You are related We are related to everything that is... A tired man talking to himself, afraid of everyone he meets; a family living on the streets; a child begging for bread... all are tied to me. A man with a gun living a life of shoot and run; a baby born in a hospital; a woman praying in a church; a man on a respirator fighting for his next breath... all are tied to me. An athlete running hard, a poet and a singer, an actor on the stage, a politician... all are tied to me. A soldier in a distant land, and the enemy taking his own stand; a man and a woman loving... all are tied to me. All of the trees in the forest; all of the waters in the world; all of the skies; all of the rocks and stones and earth... all are tied to me. The planets, the stars, the subautomic particles, the light and energy in matter... all are tied to me. I am a part of everything that is. No greater and no lessor. We are a part of everything that is. We are no greater and no lessor.