The unfathomable Within
Beneath and within the supple, sweet, transitory armor of skin is a universe
unique to each being.
What dreams and thoughts and friendships commence in those cells
within our skin and beneath our skin?
We overflow our sense of self unknowingly as we walk and talk each day.
Each of us a “one” created of many. Tiny beings swirl and have their lives within us, within our lives
We are a cosmos, a creature, a multitude
I am discouraged by humanity sometimes… in the dire news, or when I drive and red road rage seeps in through my windows ….
yet each human, each entity is art, science, and miracle… beyond explication
There is my grandson
15 … stretching taller every day as if a wire from the sky was attached to his head pulling him up
He is awakening to the dream of a life beyond childhood,
there he is perilously precious, awesome, unfathomable, unbounded, so much more than meets the eye
my heart recoils, while simultaneously singing praise and prayer
animated by the terrible ache of tenderness for a vulnerable life
inescapably,
perilously,
precious.
