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Sea Turtles & See Turtles

She has shape shifting eyes, meritorious mood rings.
Seeing things, from vantage points that are beyond
The mechanisms of sight, utilized by other beings,
Who only believe� They have seen.

She taught me how to read... Her emotions.

Maybe because I was curious, maybe because she liked me�
Maybe just because.

Grey=Worried

Really blue=Happy

Green/blue green=Sad

Green=Mystery

She taught me by allowing me to spend time with her.
And I was� Maybe studious, maybe curious.

* � * � *

One day I was on shrooms and in her presence.
She, herself, �did not take drugs�.
And, actually, did not� �Like drugs.
(I sort of wanted to tell her that shrooms are not �drugs�.)
But I played it cool, or rather, respectful.
I think she liked that about me.

She said I was the only person who took drugs,
that she would allow in her company.

* � * � *

What I saw, in her eyes, that day, really astounded me:

They were green, and I fell into them, in weightless voids and angelic wings.
Either, holding myself together, or, instantaneously diffused in pieces of peace.
In a place, where I could see, absent of my face, absent of my place, just�
Pure perception, perceiving, only depth & height, merged & emerged,
Vision, peeled back, with an exact precision, holding strong, held,
In this, strange sight, beheld, neither wrong nor right, but
All things & all places, all forms & all faces, and me�

In this place, in her eyes, began to flow,
Rivers� �Or currents.
A flux and flow beyond what could be known or what I thought I knew.

In the current was� �Life.
In various aspects of existence and life cycle.

I saw a sea turtle.
Swimming from a zigote to an inchoate to an ancient creature, remote.

And streams, of creatures, strait out of dreams.

And she just�
Looked at me, becoming a part of me.

Perhaps, lost in a sea of me?

Written by Cipher_O

(WarlordoftheWrittenWord)

Published 15th Jul 2021

Author's Note

I had this vision of the Axis Mundi, which, I think comes in different forms. (All cultures have a centric account of the "birth of all life". I think all of the accounts have merit, but that is an expansive conversation.).

I made a connection between this vision, and an event that occurred in the past, present, and future.

I think I saw it going somewhere, perhaps, different, but I followed it where it went.

I love sea turtles.