"Deep Peace" -- Poem I Wrote in 1998

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"Deep Peace"

By Laurie Kristensen


deep peace
ancient

a bottomless ocean

floating first on the surface
beginning to trust
I relax
my body warmly supported
weightlessly rippling with the waves
breeze playing softly over my face
ears filled with watery silence
yet alive with mysterious sound
seeming somehow to come from within me
feeling timeless, poised like an invisible thread
between all I feel, and know, and remember
and the depths of all I do not know
yet, somehow, feel I remember

a deep breath
and I submerge
filtered sunlight echoing
an altered universe
magically strange and unknown
yet suddenly I understand
it has always been here
unaffected by the surface changes
still and quiet, a world unto itself
yet one with the surface, connected
flip side of the same coin

I effortlessly glide
deeper into the warmth
darker and quieter,
yet a glance upward still reveals
the dancing light, reassuring
always there, welcoming
waiting to light my way

even deeper now
closer to something
waiting, calling to me
like Mother calling me home
after a long busy day of make believe
when I realize I am tired
and happy to give my games a rest

ever deeper now
warmth surrounding me thickly
no need to relieve my lungs
like being back in the womb
the deep darkness a comfort
filled with such expectation
and safety, content to wait
and dream of days to come
such splendid plans
bright idealism
and innocent trust
nothing to do
but just be

and deeper still
no end to the depths
thick and warm, yet expansive
illuminated without need for light
free of any thoughts at all

drifting
gentle invisible currents
outside of time
impossible to feel
where I begin or end
boundaries erased
no need for dreams
or expectation
no need for desire or dread
or for drama

silence inside and out
yet the fluid, mysterious
music of the universe
streams through me
like sunlight through a flower petal

weightless
yet filled with everything
and nothing all at once

profound
like the surprise of a rainbow
after the most terrible dark storm

and yet so, so simple
like the unadulterated peace
of baby at Mother's breast
separation unknown, unimagined
experiencing only THIS moment
one, by one, by one at a time

how could I have forgotten?

a bottomless ocean

ancient
deep peace


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