Untying Time

We find ourselves as characters

Unfinished, emerging 

as on time’s great loom

we’re woven,

The colors of our purpose and desires

Slow-forming on its tapestry of story

With wefts that wrap and then dip down

unseen

And poke up further on between the warps

The things we know, then don’t,

Then know again

The breathless trailing edges

of our hopes . . .

But then

We may view time as our dimension

Something we’ve stretched out

upon a frame

Coordinates established by our mind force

to help us understand our vital being

And maybe time, and time’s whole tapestry

We’ll take up one day, like a mighty cloak

to wrap ourselves

But then to fling away

So we may stride in freedom

since we know

That we endure, outside of time, eternal

And the day

No longer bound 

May then be redefined

And time be understood again

As rhythm

A beat to dance, a riff to sing

A harmony

An endless field and we the masters

Untied from time 

Aloft on Spirit’s wing.

©Wendy Mulhern

November 24, 2011

(Background music: Isaac Shepard, "Thoughtful")