vanished

I have loved,

And was moved.

 

Every now and then

I still hear the song,

From time to

Measured time.

 

I need to recover everyday living.

 

You are as though

Everything’s normal,

But

Everything’s changed:

 

The very air I swim through

Is suffused with left-over

Music, love and light.

 

Memory breaks through

Small sunlit patches

Of rainbows and scattered happiness.

 

Even the smallest movement

Can collapse with

Emotion and emphasis and meaning.

 

Spotlight.

 

Can you feel it now?

Are you following me?

Does it show?

 

If I dance to the drummers,

Will they see my flight?

Will pain and joy and wonder

Be written on my face in plain human?

 

Please

Take my hand before I spin off and

Become only the plasma of life itself:

Pure energy without form,

In and of it all,

All at once and

Forever,

Vanished.