I walk the world in wonder
By Nolo Segundo

 

I walk the world in wonder,
stopping here and there
to try to see
the unseen, the hidden, the sweetness
of a reality the mind cannot grasp,
a world of myriad dreams,
a time of endless dreaming,
a becoming
even as we lay dying little deaths…

 

I struggle to awaken
from the deepest sleep--
every morning I wake,
yet still I sleep…
sleep and sleep and sleep.
Sleeping deep and lost
as I walk the lonely day and
keep quiet the night,
tethered by holy darkness--
and dream and dream….

I walk the world in hope,
in hope of awakening,
finally,
awakening from a very long
and tired dream--
fresh once again…
ever awakening…
to joy beyond comprehension….

..

 

Where the soul hides

Not behind a face, nor eyes
Can a soul hide for it seeks
Always to escape the body
Which holds it fast to earth
And keeps the soul from
Soaring to heaven or even
Just to travel a vast and
Wondrous universe….

 

For soul knows-- knows
The good it’s done and
Suffers for the harm.
And soul longs, longs
Fiercely for God: to swim in
The great ocean of light
And hear the beating
Of the Eternal Heart.

 

Nolo Segundo from US is the pen name of a retired teacher who served in America, Japan, Taiwan, and Cambodia. He became a published poet in his 70s in over 220 literary journals in 18 countries. Cyberwit.net has published 3 collections in paperback: The Enormity of Existence; Of Ether and Earth, and Soul Songs. These titles reflect an awareness gained over 50 years ago when he had an NDE whilst nearly drowning: that he has--is--a consciousness predating birth and surviving death, what poets since Plato have called the soul.