Awakening

In my dream they were an old couple wrinkled small and gray smiling faces wishing us well as I was growing old myselff with crinkled eyes away from any medical unexpected surprise instead I felt the sun’s warmth, the trees, blue skies and all the potential with future bright living days my husband was no longer in a hurry no running to the pharmacy at Safeway instead we walked in the rocky cliffs by the bay hearing the tumble and rumble of waves the seal barks, surfers shouts, the ocean spray no worries about hidden dangers of infections no tired, achy muscles. no daily injections only reflections and projections of life of music and lights with the body’s insistence moving through the earth with persistence to fight for the life of the forests and seas to listen to the rhymes of music’s dances the light of transcendence the reality of excellence the sentient force organic in the cosmic universe that transforms all life in an open free existence And when I awoke in the light of the sun I heard the small birds' songs ——- ——- offering my heart their assistance