So at the End

Today I woke up curious,
my filters grown transparent.
I saw the spikey cactus dancing.
I felt my body dance,
taking in, allowing out.
The sun was dancing too.

I woke up curious and light.
My preferences, ferocious –
my opinions, mighty –
dropped away.
The cactus that I never liked
let me see it swirling.

I felt the breakfast
in my miracle form,
turning into me.
The rising day through windy trees
played peekaboo,
and I think I heard it chuckle.

I woke so light today,
all my filters
blessedly sleeping still,
so I could see more plainly.
Could see the dance
of everything.

I wasn’t there, you see.
I wasn’t in the way.
My thoughts of what the world is –
disappeared.
Then I heard a little singing in the wind:
That’s what life is for, it sang,

to lighten and lighten, oh!
You can always,
become yet lighter.
So that at the end,
with no opinion at all to weigh you down,
you can float away.

©Susa Silvermarie 2022