ADRIFT UPON THIS SEA OF NIGHT  (longer revision # 2)   (12-4-01, 5:30am, Galveston Island, Texas)

         
adrift upon        
this        
sea of night        
where conscious        
thoughts        
let go        
some still        
of mind        
unlocks from time        
some softer        
wisdom known        
some key        
unseen        
some thing        
unsaid        
no words        
to find        
some jewel withheld        
some deeper        
truth        
within  unfound        
whose quickened seed        
now stirs aglow        
beyond        
all those        
weve  sown        
thus far        
which failed        
before        
their hopeful fruit        
had fully formed        
yet when        
it had        
from time        
to time        
in time        
too oft        
it seemed        
to only die        
from impotence        
of human apathy
and greed      
upon its yielding        
stagnant root        
fruitless branch        
or vine        
only exacerbating        
this further distance        
weve created        
here ourselves        
within        
this distance        
of ever increasing        
disconnection        
of conscious        
separation        
from nature        
ever increasingly  
further  
away from        
the greater truth        
of who we        
really are        
beyond        
this grievous failure        
of who        
collectively        
as a species        
as stewards        
of our         
living planet        
weve sadly now        
become        
so tragically        
lost          
here in this        
toxic distance        
which we        
now are        
long journey        
nearly done          
and yet        
its path        
goes        
on and on        
in all these        
fleeting        
brief eternities        
forever        
another life        
another form        
another time        
another world        
another earth        
another sun        
another waking        
yet to come        
through sunken        
dreams recalled        
adrift upon        
this        
sea of night        
where i continue        
to wonder on        
within its        
boundless realms        
alone        
where now        
here tonight again        
just as        
i do        
and always        
have        
through        
some strange        
twist of fate        
it seems        
throughout        
my conscious life        
as well        
as here        
tonight        
at this        
increasingly        
narrowing point        
of my long        
mysterious journey        
ive surrendered        
and accepted        
more fully        
to more deeply        
and passionately        
embrace        
celebrate        
dance and live        
with wonder        
joy and gratitude        
the even greater        
wondrous mystery        
of this worlds
as well my lifes    
intimately    
reflective journeys    
inseperable    
sacred
oneness
with  
all