****This is a poem about life and death, but more importantly about God, a subject I don't tackle often. It is, really, about a man becoming God and God becoming a man. Also, it is of the birthing of one who is thought fit to replace God. And while I am not a religious man, I like to think I have an open mind to ponder the time after death and if one were to be a God, how one would exist. ****
A Satellite is defined as: [n.] a man-made object that orbits around the earth [n.] a person who follows or serves another [n.] any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star [adj.] Surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power
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There were leaves
they whispered along sidewalk
perfectly trimmed
the trees creaked and groaned
and there at my door
I knocked
Nobody answered
I was not what I was before
I could not go there
What I remembered
wasn't remembered
not as I knew it
not as it actually was
It had come to me
that perhaps
I was dead
With eyes that were not eyes,
I struggled
to see
With legs that were not legs
I struggled
to walk
I was confused
I could not see
I could not walk
And what of my place
could I make out?
Nothing
Only a presence
that did not stop its march
as it rode into my mouth
into my throat
down into my guts
and up into my head
into every corner of me
it rode
Like oil I could not wipe away
such infringement
It is then that I discovered my place
was not terrestrial at all
but far from it
This was not
where I had come from
With eyes that could now see
I blinked
and what there was
of the presence I had felt
Not even an echo
We never did meet
And it was a long time
before I understood why
And seeing next to me
nebula's, galaxies
a kaleidoscope of light
And color
And beauty
Bursting
I remembered so fondly
that time long ago
My birth
And how, too, this man
would remember
his burgeoning consciousness
coming to life
What gifts I will have given him
what joys he is to feel?
For asleep, he shall now
be awakened
And what he was
Asleep
Time will pass
as he discovers this place
And I will not show him
I will not be awake
but asleep
And there in front of him
will be the Universe
where PURPOSE
and MEANING
they will be found
He will discover
that he can affect
Change
In ways he never
could've imagined
And once his eyes open
he will go to a place he's never been
and he will go to another
and another
In each
He will see
He will know
He will learn
He will be a satellite
Glaciers of Washington State
6 years ago
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