Step away from the rain cloud

say goodbye to the cold

close your eyes for yesterday

tomorrow is no more:

this moment shimmers its existence

this second holds the chord

here, none know the answer

nothing is foretold.

Wonder at the mystery

touch across the void

take each breath as new

beginning

a path you’ve never trod.

Step away from the rain cloud

say goodbye to the known

wonder at the mystery

hold hands across the void.

Full  moon an orange orb

hung low in smoky night

church bells chime the hour

I dream a ghostly vista

where horses speak & sea rises

phosphorescent.

Before is as nothing.

Sand through fingers

the echo of a

once loved voice

distant now

you swim in pattern

fingers arching for hand hold

you fall into each morning

caught like falling leaves

craving warmth,

as I do.

I am gone from here

a phantom of the dream:

sun chases night fear

a flicker in a passing breeze.

The hills roll on tight curled

to mountain. Blood & bone

mark territory in this polished

‘now’.

Hot air, sunshine: beyond the stars

a trillion firmaments of mystery

& we like children at the fairground

hurtle onwards.

Cruise liners stoke out to lip

of cupped horizon: earth drops

touches void of interstellar vacuum

inhale: exhale: pause & pause again

each mesmerizing moment

a new beginning.