Balcony

(April 2022. I wrote this sitting by the water at the house BalconyDAO was using in Miami Beach for the Bitcoin 2022 conference. I had been hanging out with the Balcony guys all week, and was feeling inspired to write something for these new friends who had been so kind to me. After writing this poem and showing it to the Balcony guys, John wrote me a poem in my notebook. That same night was the night that the idea of daopoetry was born, and we all stayed up late on a Saturday night talking about it. This day felt like a culmination of the entire Puerto Rico->Miami adventure, and marked my personal shift from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset.)

Balcony

The water is here
And infinity
Wripples

The hint of immensity
Whispering below my feet
I have bared
Dangling

In the air I feel
The reality I am here
Sun and wind on skin of
Water within my body
Which mostly I am

There is a fallen palm branch
Suspended dead in the water,
But I do not think many of
Balcony’s many guests were looking
For this environment—
Understandably, for people are
Infinitely richer environments

But the palm is there, and tragic,
And I am here, and the opposite of tragic,
And the sunlight is on John and Damian’s skin,
And Ty’s skin, and my skin, and others’,
And we are alive and many and growing
Like the decentralized universe
Of so, so many suns

And I now see
That all futures
Shine from the present