Memories of a Dream …When daylight brings today

While we still have life,
and moments to feel
the sun and wind on our face,
moments when the wind and sky
weave all through our being
and our heart knows
their endless space and freedom,
we might also know
the poetry of silence
bringing meaning
to our human heart.
And while shadows of leaves
appear fleetingly on sunlit walls
from languid, leafy branches,
this conscious silence
sometimes weaves all through
our inner space
with the intelligence that brings birdsong
and the shape of flowers,
the consciousness that guides all life
and every human heart,
writing the unwritten
into every fleeting moment
while all we think and know,
all we dream and hope,
are all just shadows in the wind,
reflected sunlight’s dance,
moments gone forever,
gone like memories of a dream
when daylight brings today.
There’s nothing
to hang on to in this life,
all we know and feel and say dissolves
into nothingness and memory,
while a poetry of realization
writes itself into the moment,
silent in our heart
like sunlight in a summer garden,
the eternal somehow touching
every moment,
blending threads of time
through braided weaves
of synchronicity and meaning,
a continuous dance of realization
within the universal,
helping us discover
how to be human.
Paul Mulliner 2023
photo by Lorenzo Spoleti on Unsplash