Transcendence

The ground beneath my feet shuddered with life

Gripping me with a fleeting sense of terror.

Paralysed as I was at the expanse that lay ahead,

The bellowing wind shifted me from my trance

As quietude and unrest engulfed me.

I watched as the mountains heaved

And the forests breathed

And the rivers gushed fearlessly.

Leaves swayed in agreement

As winds whispered the secrets of another

Faraway land, akin to this

As I stood gazing at the sight ahead of me

The once clear image started to blur.

The sky smeared red and yellow

Now appeared dark and grey

It dawned on me that, just like an anchor,

You kept me from drifting.

As the pain of death lingers

And life burgeons in another,

As the cycle of life continues

I will continue to tell the stories of the sky, the land and water,

Of love kept and unkept.

Of us, you and I.