CONSCIOUSNESS

Mist & Sun Rays (C) Geoff Hall, 2021.

The Universe is the hiding place of the Divine. Anon.

If it is freedom for which we have been set free, then that liberty begins with consciousness.

What is conscious-ness?

save for the state of being awake,

the ability to see & then act.

To be one with

the snowflake

we share in

its crystalline beauty

and the impermanence

of its lifespan.

It is to be noted

that although it changes

form, to become the snow

of communal drift, formed

by with the Wind,

its life is longer its own

because it connects

with other snow crystals.

I drift,

I form shapes in

the wind-swirls.

I dance like a dervish

in this freezing air.

I need other snow-forms

so that we we cover

the Earth with a blanket

of mercy…

and show that fluids

can be frozen in glorious

feather-flakes, like

angel down.

You can see us coming

on clouds of witnesses,

in the snow-laden

be-fogged sky.

We bring stillness

that entices holy

silence, hush to

hold us, there .

Snow is a mercy,

for Creation’s call by

the Creator, is for

sustenance,

when the One becomes

the many and we

need mercy-time

together.

We drift…

Shula