The Open Mind for my friends in Aklan I have the magic in me and I think you do too As I realize those really are stars in your eyes And because you were reading this I already knew About you just the way you must have known about me Or else we both got lucky but that too suggests the point That the universe smiles a proud parent to see Some someones of the many one who turn out not to disappoint Appointed as we have been to return eternity The ones who understand some of the some if not for everyone The some who do what must be done the sum of me and you Unequivocal equation universal evocation Vocation vocalized in transcendental invocation And ever the reflection of forever as we realize It turns out better than we knew being me and being you Being us unfolding like the lotus everlastingly As new beginnings here and now begin to be begun Listening to silence we are called from everywhere Enlightened to enlighten called above it all to love To simply be and then to see what happens next from there From where the heart finds out about how now is anywhere As some someones are drafted other someones volunteer With all of us together many one now and here And each of us according to our specificity Since we who are of many one are anyone we please Finding who we are each of us shooting like a star Or leaf in autumn lifted by the wind to fall the other way If only for a moment now but beautifully and when We fall we only fall to catch the wind to rise again Discerning algorithms of untold realities Present in the promises of parallel eternities The possibilities become the Dao of now as learned from then As if to scry the multiverse projected on the midnight sky Revealing and peeling the layers away Concealing this the present given here and now today And not to be ungrateful but to try to understand Gleaning meaning overlooked by harvesters who hurry As hidden in plain sight we find today where yesterday left it behind Thinking it tomorrow and that it would never come But those who say it does not said it yesterday when it was not And come what may it has come now at least to some of the some Being who we are and speaking what we have to say With authority and not as the scribes anymore Worrying spacetime like a dog a bone to find the paradigm But not that way a person does because the magic does not worry Continuing with the continuum since whether or not we do it will Keeping on going growing and knowing that what we do not know will be known Someday someway having learned it the hard way first but this time not alone In movement in stillness as movement moves on and we move on moving still On the journey of a lifetime seeking wondering what for And finding it to recognize the stars reflected in each other's eyes As none but some of the some and we really are seeing stars we realize And wonder what else we might be seeing what other wonders we might see being Finding ourselves there in the eyes of everywhere and seeing how With so many stars to comprehend too many to explain now So many to count but if anyone would one could only number them one Of the ones of the some of the some with the magic within beginning again Nor are we disappointed by what comes at the end At least at the end of the part we can see When it comes let it come then like the long lost friend It is which we have not seen since the other end of be And having come this far by questing now we rest with life suggesting Being was a mindful riddle but a game we won Out of hiding feeling riding the wheel in the days of always to find As if it were an open car the freedom of the open mind +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX