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Again

Sue the second time I saw you clearly after you died I was dancing

Again in my movements and in my thoughts I was reaching up to you and quietly, softly gently

There you were

More than five years have passed

You were farther away this time but your light and love were even brighter and I saw you

saw the reality you had become in my consciousness in the distance more clearly

It is weeks later now I was awake long before the sun would come around to this part of earth where the body encompassing my thoughts

still lives

I woke several hours ago and read about the physics that makes flight possible

and then to try to sleep again I put the words aside lay down again and visualized seeking to ungrasp all thoughts and meditate to a state of blissful nothingness and sleep

In the beginning soft images and revelations of the miracles I had been reading about and wanting to understand completely in my muscles and nerves as well as my mind

actual images flowing past me with my existence as a simple mind floating in thoughts    emotions    visions created by my soft intentions of letting go and experiencing knowledge and then no knowledge directly

folded into the substance of life and awareness of being awake

relaxed and quiet

I saw the physics of emotions

what causes their lift and drag

no words the truth simply flowed and swirled around me

I began to pray in a new way understanding love and anger in a new way

and I moved through my prayer in a new way

and the way peacefulness appeared reminded me that I had seen you again

dancing is my most innocent prayer the easiest way I can become a child escape experience and just be alive again

and I got out of bed silently and effortlessly dressed in warm clothes and came downstairs to write this poem for you

remembering how I had seen you again

the moon just past full greeted me as I began to write

reflection of your light

the tender pink glow of day’s beginning smiles at me now

Thank you, Sue for letting me see you again

from 2012 — Bill Eberle

January 28, 2013     © 2013, Bill Eberle