Down by the water

I wandered down to the river and followed on to the lake

Then laid down by the water, time was mine to take

Settling down I skyward gazed

At a silent theatre in the summer haze

The noiseless clouds would shy

And halt their dance

Till I closed my eyes or avert my glance

Or gazed higher still at the gossamer traces

Of their kin patrolling those heavenly places.

And little by little all the buzzing words

Were ushered out by the song of birds

And a gentle haunting harmony

Of the wind playing softly, through the sighing trees.

Dissolving me with these lullabies

Morpheus reached to close my eyes

Beguiling me with pleasant dreams

To slip me in his tyrannous schemes

When, Boom,

By sudden thunder I was struck

Behind closed languid eyes

As dashes of vivid colours rended a dark night sky 

Shocked alert, now keen as an eagle

I was wrenched to a shattering view

Alive in the vastness of eternity

Worldly thought may never construe

I knew then of its coldest indifference

To the mindless things people do

As we struggle blindly in this world

Believing our petty misconceptions as true.

In that endless enveloping moment

Our absurdity of assumptions dissolved

The shared purpose of our existence 

Clamoured to impart and unfold

With every eye ever born of creation,

Each unique and unfolding event

Transmitted and recorded in the infinite

The cosmic hologram in which we are spent.

We’ve a constant nagging feeling

Something missing, a restless despair

An inkling knowledge of our incompleteness 

A frustration we are all bound to share​

Just out of reach, behind a door

We sense, we know we are so much more

A perceiving facet of the designer of all

We watch, we witness and await its call.