In a parallel life

In a parallel life

I am close to my soul

Feeling my heart home

Amidst my kin

Sun translucent on my skin

The heat of truth is the fire the moves me

And I have no fear of it

Or memories of ice

In a parallel life

I am dancing

Wild and free

Above the city

As flocks of seagulls fly past

And my spirit soars

In time to the beat

In another life

Liquid honey runs in my veins

I feel no sense of exile

Mistaken identity or shame

But this is not my current life

Only a dream

That takes me unawares

On long slow draw out

Late summer afternoons

As my soul stares into the

Strange distance

And my beating heart

Dances in time

To the slower rhythms

Rising like

A stirring tide

Spinning me sideways

Making my soul fall

Slowly, softly, gently

Into the bittersweet dream

Of this present moment