Perhaps I will just sit here,
& never think again, perhaps
I will still my mind so completely
that at last the Earth will speak to me,
gently here beneath this ancient oak, perhaps
for at least a moment I will feel the deep, slow, sensual
heartbeat of Life itself & I will lose myself in wonder,
the day draws on, somewhere perhaps, but not here,
not in the infinity of this silence that somehow embraces
all natural sounds, the leaves, the grass, the breeze,
a profound wisdom slowly reveals itself, as if subtly
shimmering in the slow eddies of my bloodstream,
making me smile & just become it without understanding
what it is, once I was a warrior, I think, or a poet,
or a Lover, but now I know I am but sunlight upon
the water, only the waves go on forever, & the Cosmos
& the stars, & I am become them, I think of you,
so shining & beautiful in the flowing green dress
of your one perfect summer, & I think perhaps
we will meet again & kiss & remember,
even if but a moment, before Ecstasy
guides us home...
--NorthPoet, from VISION RIDER...