​Journey

Permission granted,
we flew through some mist
of our making
or was it an ancient
vapor we found
following freely
the everso delicate space
between fingertips
and yielding palms,
headwings feeding the air
we shared
lifting us in alternating currents
through one another’s rise
was it upward?
our fixed gaze
trading yesses on cue
in resounding spirals,
larger and easier by rounds,
an ebb and flow of awareness
one to another
compelling both
and we rose
was it outward?
the body fusing
with electric realms
and the vapor suddenly
clinging like fire to the skin
soaking us to the core
of dispersal,
cleansing somehow
and then gone
as the top of our being
emerged into drylight,
the mist peeling off us
behind
and a memory of bodies
trailing like tails
as we soared,
entered some essence
unleashed.

This is surely the ether pure,
we’d have thought,
and it made us take notice
of thinking,
a far away chariot
cast back
to the land of wheels
as we moved all ways
at once
welcoming others
was it inward?
filling with emptying
we swirled motionless
enfolding all pasts
in soft white embrace,
everything known
none more than another,
wrapped in a golden whole
and released,
become nothing,
we laughed at how simple,
radiating surely
in the heart of joy
arriving somewhere brilliant

…until the last traces
of single selves
were called up for melting
and we made a different choice,

turning…..easing…..slowing
we lingered
partook
became visitors,
were loved and entered
and sent back then,
everso gently around
and around
the light taking shape
for our glide,
nothing like known descent,
more in us than that,
making circles
for containment,
a safe return.

…And we were head-aware
the crown made of fluff
closing gradually down
through the tingle of skin
to even the feet,
though our insides were air
where we drifted,
no moisture needed

…then gravity found us
body bound, feet on the floor
and our eyes met so sharply
that heat passed between them
and, stinging,
we saw who we are,
my God!
and the heart chakra answered
pulses came loudly
and the smiles so broad
that it could not be held
so we ran,
through the door
through the field
through the wind shouting yes
on our paperbroad faces,
our feet pounding rhythms
crossways forever,
through crackling woods
we maneuvered like fairies,
above all
and yet so far in,
all speed at our call
‘til we dropped
taking earth to ourselves
and i lay on my back
breathing wide with the sky,

…felt a warm pull
between fingertips,
turned,
and we made the embrace
of our lives,
fully grateful
the length of ourselves
was it forward?
we held on,
the beat of our hearts
closing it down
sweeping us in
leaving us lie
until moisture
pasted our skin
and we slept.