AWARENESS  



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. 



   




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