If I Were
If I were a duck
I would swim and fly
and travel from north to south
and back again.
If I were a dog,
I would bark and run
and pee on shrubbery and smile.
I would sniff all sorts of things and places
without a second thought,
perhaps without even a first thought.
If I were an ant,
I would carry a piece of bread
five times my size,
and I could never feel lost
because ants share a communal mind.
If I were a tree,
I would just be …
such freedom not to have to do anything,
simply to be.
And if I were able to be myself,
if I were able to be fully human,
I would love always and everywhere,
and when being in love,
I would reflect God by being
what I was meant to be,
as all of creation does.