The last week and a half has been a time of deep thinking, creating and living in the "thin places" (places on earth where the Presence is so strong that they serve as portals between this world and another.) There are specific things that make my soul complete, things that I have seemed to move away from over the last few years. My moments of "movement" as I have been calling them in Ethiopia and now Zimbabwe have taken me back into those “thin places” that I find while painting in my studio, writing in a small cafe, or spending time in creation. Here are a few poems from those moments in the last week, accompanied by the places and people that have inspired my soul here in Africa. Time has once again stood still,
here on the other side of the waters,
my thoughts are moving like the wind
in memory through the trees,
it feels like floating,
symbolic yet mysterious,
as it was once said,
“Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters”,
I disappear in thoughts of the beginning,
my eyes focused, follow the fog,
as it slowly walks amidst the reeds and grass with
no where to go but away,
I think of eternity being here, now,
I exhale…
The clouds rest misty over the Ethiopian skies,
miles of green run wild through the vast open air,
the great wild exists beyond the hills,
what are the stories that have gone before me?
where are the souls that have left to early, my thoughts flow with the breeze,
I want to stay, I want to learn,
I want to read the faces and put pen to paper,
so that you can feel the beauty and the weight…
Grew up with freedom and never knew a struggle,
other than mental or spiritual,
we truly are a reflection of everyone,
Yet circumstance and culture seem to change the colors and dreams,
we are skin, bone and water,
we breath by miracles and magic,
the wind still feels the same and tears still feel as wet,
our faces tell story or hide it, and I wonder,
I observe and I ask,
when is my time? how can I be? a
s the wings of the seraphim hold me,
my lungs show dust and my hands feel clay,
this is now, this is today, this is forever...
The walls are cracked and peeling,
feet worn down and hands full of story,
I feel the sun from the corner,
bringing warmth and color into space that breaths life,
this is perfection, a beauty rarely seen,
there is movement here,
a presence of the divine,
and my soul sways,
my heart gives,
my eternity echoes,
I feel, I know, I see...
