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15 AWARENESS
It comes ...
the brief flash of awareness
when I least expect it.
One moment life is ordinary, dull.
Then suddenly I look
with newborn eyes
and life is timeless.
All nature moves on a breath
more close.
The air is keener on my face.
The colours and the sounds
intensified.
My pulse beats faster
while a liquid warmth
runs through my veins
like summer lightning.
And I am ageless ...
Part of "all there is".
And "all there is"
holds secrets
which I too can share.
I cannot put it into words.
I can't explain.
But instinct in me shouts:
"That's right!
That's what it's all about.
This is the truth".
I feel like a small child
who sees a glimpse
in some bright picture book
of something
which he recognises
but cannot define.
The pages flicker by
too quickly
to digest the whole.
And though I try to hold
this magic captive
it will not remain.
As soon as I begin to analyse
it goes, as quickly as it came!
For like a passenger
in a fast-moving train,
I come from tunnel into light;
yet even while I say:
"This is the light!"
I have moved on
into the tunnel once again.
J MILTON © 2022
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