mind dance
a river of emptiness carries me into the night…
the water touches my skin but does not wash away the fear…
the unknown beckons my innocence and my dreams…
challenging me to bear the weight of them in this narrow place…
i call out, but the sound of my voice is lost in the hollow sky…
unseen and unheard, i drift into the abyss of my existence…
certain that others have traveled here before…
i grab onto that communion and breathe in the temporary solace it brings…
a momentary pause in the darkness reveals something hidden…
a shadow, a glimpse into something beyond my primal sight…
a gift of the mysterious wrapped in the calm of what is and has always been…
so steady and solid and yet unable to be named or grabbed onto…
my heartbeat anchors me in the incessant movement of change…
my body responding and reacting to it knows not what…
aching, purging, expelling, cleansing, letting go of all that was…
to make room in this moment, this time, this place for what is yet to be…
each choice touches every other choice and when they meet, life explodes…
in a new unknown direction born on the wings of a thought or decision…
so simple, yet so caught in the web of the infinite myriad of choices…
emanated both consciously and unconsciously on the breath of human life…
in this place of aloneness, the wheels of time stop…
allowing me to see and observe the space between choices…
the abyss of nothingness between breaths…
here is where we all reside all the time…
but so caught up in the illusion of movement…
we miss it…
we miss it and falsely perceive ourselves as going somewhere and as doing something…
when all that exists is the burst of energy that erupts out of the void of being…
to keep us interested and occupied and invested in the game of life…
a mind dance set upon us by the one who created us and invited us to play…
