Tribute to a Legend

Here is a poem I wrote perhaps a year ago -

There is grace and ease and the
Lightness of steps
Against
Earth that gives again to the fallen
Hope of feet prayed across its
Giving ground.
And a beat plays continuous from first
Strike and then echoed through the
Chest in an ache of joy and motion
And something more unsaid and
Even more can’t be told but
Only known -
By those who run.
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Inspired by and on a morning run along the beautiful Patapsco Valley trails. Another inspiration was Micah True of Born to Run fame, who I credit with teaching me and so many others the meaning of "run free". Here is the reply he sent me -

sweet...muy poetico!-: Run free.

CB
..

Not many words. Yet they meant and mean the world to me. I started running long distances to heal myself and my relationship with someone. I might have fallen short on my goals but I discovered something important - a path towards healing, a comfort in the natural world that brought me a sense of homecoming, and a sense of freedom that Caballo Blanco hinted at in true Zen Masster fashion - ot by pointing, but by being. Thank you my friend, you have shown me and many others the meaning of running with spirit.
Run Free,
Eric