Much as it feels like it,
we are not just salmon
swimming upstream in search of that safe place,
site of our spawning,
source of our lives.

Deep inside, we know this:
we are souls expanding
where we are, discovering that which we seek
is imprinted already,
written upon our hearts.

We are the created
and we are the creators,
formed in the likeness of the One
who is life and energy,
is now and forevermore.

Fully, we are engaged
in becoming more of who we are.
We embrace the now here
nowhere, merge and grow
and emerge, reborn anew.

Having made the journey
home, to where we first began, we begin
and begin again in life as in death
in our passage toward resurrection
in the great I Am.