Did you ever consider...
by sharlean
Did you ever consider that when you close your eyes
and unpin the hinges of your mind
that the dream scenes seen
like reflections on the surface of a softly
rippling pond
might be a mirror on your truer self
that your unseen self
might ripple and shine
like the surface of that pond
might be liquid and reflective
might have an ecosystem of life
beneath the surface
or be connected
like the million root branches and fine root hairs
of a great swamp tree
which spreads out into the sweet water
into the feast of earth
and reaches reaches its magnificent self
for the blue sky freshness of an autumn afternoon? I slip in and out of this dreaming.
Now solid, now ripple pond.
Now compact, now spreading tree.
When you look at your own reflection
and see fragments of life
dancing like fireflies all around your head--
or knowledge of life, of love, of the mystery of being
in a snowsquall of confetti
whose occasional atom catches the light
revealing its shape
and a fleeting glimpse of its location and relationship,
when you are that being it confirms me, permits me
and this vital dreaming becomes real. Perhaps we solid beings
can do this for one another,
there being no more precious gift. 2/96 Julie Masters
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