-- To Be What You See --

­­John Herlihy

One brief moment, to be what you see,

As if wrapped contentedly in the shade.

A deep descent into nature, losing myself,

Soon beginning to feel light, weightless.

As bright as light and as airy as smoke,

I am light rays streaming from the sun.

In dusk, shadows falling across the land,

Darkness turning everything into night.

I am moonlight shimmering as moonglow,

The light as dew dust on leaf and pond.

I fall into the ageless wonder of the stars,

As the silence of outer space descends.

To witness midnight in the eye of night,

To see, to be, till blindness of daylight.

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Copyright © John Herlihy

Monday 11 January 2021