She came

In my moment of blackest despair,

A creature of light and laughter

No bigger than a mouse and shiny as a sun,

Dancing on the wind, 

Singing,

“Come with me on a journey to the beginning of silence

And the deep peace

At the heart of all things.

We'll ride the cosmic light-trails;

Slide down the silver threads

That hang between the stars.

Solar songs and soul-suns will light light our way

And the smile of death speed us.”


Taking a hand like a silver droplet in mine,

I was suddenly as tiny as her.

We flew

At the speed of thought,

To the spaces between leaves

And under the bark where only

Flat people can go ,

Met a sun that loved its children

More than any mother,

And a man who had the world but lost it,

Saw a land of singing creatures that lived inside a single droplet,

Passed the solar light-gardens

Where gods and giants worked

And new galaxies sprouted from the radiant soil.


We dived into seas of splendid song,

Through the hearts of suns,

To a mile-high room, lined with shelves that held lost time,

And through halls of dreams

Where past loves and memories of childhood

Called and begged reunion

From behind each doorway,

Over seas of insanity

To the kaleidoscopic shores of creation.


And there she stopped

And exploded

Singing,

“ I am you, and you are  He,

And we are She.”

And as the world collapsed in light

The white-coats found me and locked me here

("Mad," they said).


But tell me,

Who is the fool?

For I have been to the Centre of All Things,

And made it  my home.