Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 4

Out of the Night: Childness

From my Mystic Life after near-death accident 

More than a state of being 
A new being 
Suffused in light 
Whatever is there like being held 
In Father’s arms 
Way beyond Safe 
Carried asleep 
From one quiet to another 
All of it a heartbeat 
Back back back the coming together 
Carried in a dark velvet womb 
Accepting 
Floating from density 
Into light 
This is only the beginning 
Whatever that is 
I like the others of no age 
Willing for once to wait 
Knowing in time 
Only the exquisite balance 
Of everywhere at once 
Saying You are here

Come, you of no name 
That Emma fits 
Who hears and answers 
The answers 
Childness knows no blame
Only the lightness of being
In your childness 
Nothing will be lost 
Though all is right 
In the place of no sides at all
Of return without going away
Know this that Time is Life
Enclave born to other enclaves 

Every step of the weaning
Still heavy on my pillow 
The joy is lifted with me 
From even the light am I detached
It takes me in 
Till “love calls me to 
The things of this world.”