Down the side walk and when
I looked up
My breath was taken away
It wasn't a human sight that
Took my breath away
Although there are plenty of
Beautiful Mortals
That can steal your breath and make
You Pause
No it wasn't a human sight
Although it was my eyes that saw
As a mere human
Something that was so far away and
Yet so near
So beautiful and yet incomprehensible to
A mere mortal
I saw a white light shining behind a dark cloud
And I kept looking
And kept walking
And the dark cloud gradually slinked away
And I saw what was hiding behind
Tried to hide because really it could not hide
The Moon
Not just any moon
A Full, White, Round Glorious Moon
And as I kept walking, it seemed almost toward it
I wanted to follow it but the irony was
It seemed to follow me
Egocentric thoughts, of course
Mere human thoughts, of course
It seemed to shine brighter and brighter as the dark clouds completely moved away
And as I turned a corner It never left
I walked past buildings that I thought could hide It
Perhaps momentarily
Never for forever
It was strangely comforting
A humanly spiritual experience
Or a spiritually human experience
That our lives revolve around a much greater Purpose
That every single experience we have
Is not really ours
That sometimes we have to extricate ourselves from the mess we make of our lives
And look at things from a much higher and a far removed perspective
Could we compare the Moon to God?
Perhaps
There are similarities after all
He's there beside us at our every waking moment as well as our sleeping ones
When we turn a corner He's there
Even though we may not see Him, when everything seems dark
He never left
And it gives us the courage to continue down our Path
Turning corners, passing buildings
Only to turn another corner and find Him
Still there
A wonderfully comforting though
It takes my breath away
