What Happened Next?
Q: What Happened Next?
A: I sat down to breathe, closed my eyes and went in
Where was the earth and where did it begin?
My body convulsed as I birthed a lion cub
Without time as a threshold, I blinked, it grew up
The Lion devoured me in one shocking fell swoop
I became nothing, re-formed, my belly moving like soup
I heaved and I birthed, a second lion cub son
Another mouth, so fierce, teeth around me…I was done
I opened my eyes and I floated with grace
A deep topaz blue, a high mountain lake
There was a moment of calm, so pristine, so surreal
Then pulled into the depths, only cold I could feel
A sharp crystal pierced through the back of my heart
It came through me, and again, I dissipated apart
The sound of a fury, the whoosh of light speed
Astral traveling through wormholes of a deep space stampede
My mind could not make any sense of it all
Any sense was my mind in the limit of small
Faster than life, than of breath from before
I arrived, an implosion dissolving once more
Colors of gaseous fusion, floating in space
A star was born, serene, and ‘I’? Not a trace…
I came back to this world, to my body, my seat
My jaw dropped in awe from this fantastical feat
Where did I go, other than simply inside?
To the inner world of my life, with my heart as my guide
Is this the current moment, an insightful free-for-all?
Creative wisdom perhaps, it’s Leo season after all
These days I’ve felt stripped, right to the core of my core
And every last glimpse from within reveals what’s in store
Consumed by two, not one, Lions of the Law
The karma burning through on the samsara seesaw
The deep emotional peace found momentarily afloat
Purified and drawn further into the piercing blue note
If one day it’s true and we return to stardust
Then I can wake up again and do what I must
To become who we are and remember along the way
Inspires me to no end, a great cosmic play
And with this I settle back into right here and right now
My hands to my heart and to you, a deep bow
