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The spark of recognition
Feelings, ideas, Discoveries
To fashion, touch and caress
From where and when comes awareness
Can you feel what I see and see what I feel?
In the darkness of my night, lightning strikes
Illuminating for a moment a silent world
existing as a flash of understanding.
God strikes a match.
The initial flare of awareness brings with it a spark,
A spark challenging the master of the night.
The ember of fire is brushed with angel wings.
It flickers as the power of the supreme
flows into it
As I watch, the nights dominion
begins to recede
And I feel the emerging dawn
of understanding
My chains fall away, and I am allowed to move
towards that growing spark,
as it flows towards me.
The silence of daybreak takes on its own life.
The breeze of beauty and the emerging movement
of the light of understanding
A few more moments…
the spark that arrived with lightning in the night
has become the focus of my attention.
The spark is now more conscious of itself
It takes on the hue of human awareness
Would that I recognized who,
for anyone that comes to me
in that manner,
is someone that needs welcoming.
Features form,
Building into a physical impression
that can transcend
the dreamlike quality it had.
The impression becomes one
of human…