Beyond

Beyond is…

To sleep,

To dream,

To reach,

To touch the unknown.

Such lucid fantasies

Carry malleable fodder for reality’s needs.

To be part of the horizon,

The endless sea,

The cusp of oceans and rivers,

Of tributaries forged by melted experience,

Of a flower’s once velvet bloom and leaf,

Now of petrification.

The light and dark

Bringing the universe

And all that is in it,

The Yin and Yang

As rose and stem,

Of petal and thorn,

Of joy,

Of pain.

Life’s labyrinth…

Is both complex and generous,

Allowing both to nomadize existence

Into indispensable lessons of survival.

For, just as the circuitous journey of Nature,

From becoming a river,

Becoming an ocean,

Becoming creation’s rain clouds,

So too will droplets of endless evolution

Start mortality’s next iteration,

Will remind us once again of life’s dream-like

Fantasy,

Reality…

Its paradox.