Surreal...

The wild flowers have hidden
their face from the darkness
and await the smile of morning sun.
Yet I can smell the beauty that
surrounds me like a warm breeze
and carries me off to a better place.

I lay back to watch nature’s light show.
A trillion stars like eternal fireflies
light the sky in a show of wonder.
I close my eyes and I’m drawn upward
as if by a gentle magnet to a place
among the stars.

It was motion without movement.
It was matter without substance.
It was travel without time.
It just was...
My senses all reversed, down was up
right was left, nothing was everything.
I was suspended yet moving at light speed.

Is the universe just a collection of contradictions?
Is knowledge of everything knowledge of nothing?
The breath of infinity washes over me
and whispers in my ear, “ awareness is
the key to Enlightenment t “. Suddenly,
ultimate truth seems to be at my finger tips.
I reach and reach, my hand now out of site.
My grasp frozen in time. My arm detached.

Now I panic. The beauty, the knowledge
the awareness overwhelm me. The infinite
encompasses all. The finite trying to grasp
the infinite is what brings dreamers back to earth.
I open my eyes, the beauty is there but the
stars are fading as the sun takes it place in
the sky. The flowers open up and smile.