DAY OF SURRENDER       (Galveston Island, Texas)

     
outside this    
mid january    
morning    
yet another    
unseasonable    
winters day    
like so many    
others so far    
this year    
took me by    
surprise    
in mother natures    
happy confusion    
as her pure    
clean air    
a comforting    
seventy degrees    
today    
gently caressed    
me softly    
with each    
delicate breeze    
that comes    
her fresh  clean breath    
flowed so gently    
around my living form    
as her open    
bright blue eye    
this perfect    
pop art sky    
above    
stares serenely down    
animated with    
these huge      
evenly spaced    
cotton ball clouds    
sailing slowly by    
silently overhead    
in this    
seemingly    
imaginary sky    
youd only expect    
to see    
or find    
in some    
childrens book    
of dreams    
with this    
joyous sun    
pouring down    
its constant    
molten glaze like    
shower    
of radiant  golden light    
all over me    
and everything    
bathing me    
in its healing    
warmths    
buttery bath    
aglow    
as i savor    
its bright embrace    
its penetrating love    
its life giving    
intimate touch    
that fills me up    
with such    
sweet peace inside    
as i begin    
to gradually notice    
some heightened sense    
of aliveness    
growing and swelling    
inside me    
apparent here      
in everything    
around me    
when suddenly    
i sense    
and understand    
the clearer meaning    
of its subtle    
message    
to me earlier    
this morning    
as it becomes    
so crystal clear    
to me now    
why today was      
the day    
i took off    
my watch    
turned off    
my computer    
put away    
all my little lists    
of endless    
little things    
i need and want      
to do    
but which never    
seem to ever fully    
get done    
because my    
little lists    
just keep on    
growing longer    
and longer    
more    
and more    
every day    
which is why    
i just had to    
get outside    
far enough    
away    
from    
all of this    
and from all    
that other    
more meaninglessly      
distractive    
completely disconnected    
stuff      
to air out    
my head    
to feed my    
bright spirit      
and to further quicken    
my soul again    
for today    
is a day    
worthy of such    
open  full    
surrender    
and communion    
with and to    
the seductive    
healing spell      
of this beautiful    
wondrous days    
perfect gifts    
to remind me here    
of lifes truer    
purpose    
beyond all    
the false ones    
ive been so blindly serving    
only half awake    
here lately    
just as others    
have done    
so obliviously    
or by conscious      
choice    
for years    
thats why this day    
beckoned to me    
this morning    
so loudly    
so strongly    
so deeply      
so clearly    
begging me    
for my complete    
and total attention    
for my awarenesses    
deeper immersion    
into the restorative    
reconnected    
depths    
of its vital    
ever calling    
constant    
flowing    
higher state    
of awakened    
living    
being    
in absolute    
conscious oneness    
within the eternal    
flow    
of this  
ever continuous
present moments
constantly
unfolding
transcendent
sacred
now