THE WIND: A REVERIE

Have you listened

To the stories told by the wind?

Have you flown with a breeze

Through the branches of trees

And dancing, played with the leaves?

Have you floated unmoving

Above the wide flat expanse

Thick with grasses

Or cultivated plains?

Have you died as a whisper

Upon a butterfly’s wing

Till stirred to life again

Deep within the wetness

Of a tropic forest?

Have you bounced and leaped

From wave to wave

Across the vastness of blue water,

Or skipped across dunes and sunbaked rock

Trailing bits of the earth behind you

Like a comet’s tail?

Have you been possessed:

The wind entering your every pore

Washing the molecules of your body

Flavoring every atom

Till the sound, the taste

The feel of wind is all you are?

Then in a moment’s shock,

Like a single brief earth tremor,

You are separate once more?

Yet, in the moment of abandonment,

Alone in the silence,

You remain poised as if for flight

Lighter than eider down.

Were it not for the tiniest doubt,

The merest inkling of disbelief–

…..Which surely is all that tethers

…..You to earth–

Do you not believe at such moments

That you might gently melt into the sky?

#wind