Night Journey
Passing silently across the
dark
Crimson sunset falls across
trees
Cool piney air blows through
the window
Silvery creeks curve off into
the blackness
With sand banks pale yellow
Cars flow down hillsides, their
headlights blinding me
To the shadowy shoulder
whizzing by
Native American flute music
plays on the radio
Soothing, haunting melody
suspends me in time
The road unfolding like a
path to some sacred place
Endless banking and swinging
around curves
Through the limitless void of
darkness
She sits beside me speaking
quietly of life, death, and rebirth
Her syllables flow
melodiously from her lips
A river of wonder, passion,
love
Hungry to know what lies out
there beyond the veil
Her soft voice caresses my
mind
Sending me to a place out of
time
A celestial sphere of shining
light
Where eternity stretches out
limitless, and majestic
Human reason cannot lead me
into this mystery
She touches my hand with
divine warmth
Like an angel of mercy she
leads me from the wilderness
Into myriad worlds
We pass refineries ascending
the interstate
Gliding down the concrete
skyway
I pass through the city
oblivious to the lights of buildings
As they shimmer in the night
air
My thoughts escape the bounds
of the city
Encompassing multitudes of
worlds
As I descend onto the street
Lined with stores, gas
stations, ephemera
The kaleidoscopic world
dances by
Trillions of atoms vibrating
in a chorus of wave patterns
City life buzzing to the
fields of energy
Thousands of people trickling
through the labyrinth of streets
Like corpuscles flowing
through a maze of arteries
In a cybernetic organic body
melded with circuitry
People moving through the
mechanized hive of humanity
Like angels flying in
formation
Through a celestial sphere
Beyond care, fear, or pain
The apotheosis of humankind
We are children of the stars,
divine but mortal
My heart flutters
As the stream of humanity
vanishes into the ethereal night
Leaving traces, residues of
energy
In the arc of light emanating
from the street lights
Ghosts, ectoplasms of the
eternal
Endless palpitations of life
The light flashes green
