friends ...so loved

the still of my heart sits still
as my heart sit still i  am in a place of sadness 
today my cockroach died or so i thought

he use to eat everything i dislike
and ran around like Rich Roach

i would sometimes in my loneliness look for him 
but he seems to hide 
within the kitchen floor of crumbs

i can never find him
until one day i 
swept and somehow picked him up in a scoop 
while flushing... there he was 
in a whirl of pool drowning

sad it was
but i grab him up
with my hand all stink and wet
 
and i remember a story from Buddha
so i give him some sugar and dried him off 
with a cool fan and a little of water set to drink
 
not that he need it
but i felt spiritually good at the moment

then an amazing thing happen 
while watching him on the floor 
a number of cockroaches came to join him to eat the sugar 

and i thought how amazing this is ...Buddha would be pleased

now my only friends are my cockroaches
they are so with me
everyday they have a story to tell hissing

i continue to feed them 
they continue to eat 
they continue to live

how beautiful a life can be 
so cookroaching...
as we laugh all day
in a splendor of friends so loved