The Understanding
© Candice James, Poet Laureate Emerita
New Westminster, BC CANADA
We wade knee-deep
In our own patterns of eternity:
Weaving the destiny we wear;
Mapping the world we create;
Stumbling through dreams;
Tripping on nightmares;
Cutting our teeth on the knife of life.
Visible and invisible,
Peeling hours like oranges,
Sharing slices of time,
We are ghosts
Filtering in and out of sky and soil.
Dreaming…
We’re lying awake.
Awake…
We’re inside the dream.
We are vapid expectations
Of our own personal poetry
Filling page upon page
With sunsets and moon-glow,
Snowflakes and stardust.
Waist deep,
We begin the understanding.