Talking to You

Talking to you

I stumble

Upwards

Feeling my head rising into

Evaporated ether

Leaning closer in spirit

If standing upright much the same

Not conscious of heartbeat or breath

Holding a paper cup filled with

Water keeping

Level

Words exchanging

Expanses 

At ease

With new possibility

Lessons arising

Seeping in

To be revisited later?

Annotated and cited

In new times revised

Built upon

Smashed apart

Reworked and made fresh-

Maybe, maybe not-

For now, though

Forgetting place, time, situation, person

Thoughts renewing

Mind elevating with each alternation of

Back and forth

Body and senses erased

I understand myself again

In what is before me

With all that is behind me

And the periphery of all

That lies ahead

Returning with the rhythm of a beat

I’ve never played before

Never heard

Like all rhythms 

Initiated by coming home

And leaving home

Traveling and sojourning

Through the manifold regions of reaching

I remember the inexhaustibility of

Love of learning

And learning of 

Love