Monday, March 31, 2014

What Does It Look Like?

Before the drum even started,
  I felt the weight, heavy, pressing
  my body into the earth.

It is a rock
  under the full weight of the mountain.
  It is the cornerstone, bearing the mass of life,
  unburdened by the load, forever strong, breathing gently.

Pressed ever more deeply into the earth,
  Absorbing the heat, expanding, transforming,
  white-hot molecules excited, dancing, anticipating.

Then the explosion, hurling tons of boiling lava
  vertically, through miles of quaking, birthing mountain
  oblivious to, and unbound by, that unyielding force…gravity.

Erupting from the uterus of mountain turned mother.
  Spewing lava into the sky, breaking into a million bits,
  each impregnated with life, reaching for the stars.

Floating now, among the stars, quiet, ready, patient.

A shooting star pierces the blackness,
  it’s tail whipping through the million bits
  striving to stay abreast its mother, mixing
  with the million bits, imbuing the million bits
  with color and song and method,
  letting go, finally, of the star now gone,
  finding its home among the million bits.

A billion bits, heavy with life, falling from the sky,
  seeding the earth, the other planets, the universe.
  Burrowing deeply into the expectant uterus,
  drinking voraciously the rich nutrients…

Bursting forth as life,
  faeries, dancing, singing, playing, sexing,
  joyful, exuberant, zestful, laughing.

The hand of God,
  playing, creating, laughing, singing, creating…

Heavy, pressing down into the earth.
  Reaching the depths and the heat.
  Exploding out the mountain turned mother.
  Spewing fragments of life into the universe.

Dancing in the stars.
  Creating rainbows in the dark.
  Shining the light for all to see.

That…is what IT looks like.

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