Once I was a photon travelling white hot screaming
Through starbody explosions intensifying into excitement
Then slipping past sentries flinging overfenced escaping
Into the night sky’s cold blackness
Sped into a measureless void heralding the heat of creation
Into dark corners radiating warmth with a promise of more
Once I was molten churning magma ooze
Running red hot through mantle crust
To arrive fluidly into a fixation of granite
Where I stood grounded and surrounded
Until I was ground down by elemental others
Chipped and hacked into boulders and rocks
Crumbled into smallness of sand
Populating deserts and beaches and playgrounds
Where I became the world for three year olds with toy trucks
Who extrapolated me into highways and mines
That grew inside the fertile minds of innocence as yet unbound
Once I was a dewdrop that slipped from tiny leaf
Into a mere suggestion of a stream
Rubbing shoulders with my brothers
As we tumbled slid from stream to creek to river to sea
Where I was transcended through evaporation
Into the sky to join water angels skydancing cloudbodied
Shapeshifting through windrivers
Until gravity tapped my shoulder and I fell to earth
Where I rest in moistened communion with everything
That I have been part and apart of
Everything connected somewhere somewhen somehow
Once I was this moment
Here
David Trudel © 2013
