You Are
(This poem was inspired in part by John Clare's magnificent poem, "I Am"; I wrote it in the autumn of 2013, after we had discussed "I Am" in an adult class I taught. Its truth I can attest to by having experienced an NDE as a young man. In these fraught times, perhaps it will help to remember we are eternal beings traveling for a brief time in mortal vessels.)
You are,
and not as feared :
just a birthing and a dying,
nothing before, nothing after....
No, that is your body (and brain)--
but you are...forever...
without beginning, without ending,
a soul stepping briefly out of Eternity
into a fragile shell alone and lost in a world
of life and death, sunrise and sunset,
desire and regret....
Yet you forget what you truly are--
the very breath of God!
And so you blunder through
this dream-speckled life
like an orphaned child
hungering for home....
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