If I Ever Meet This Moment Again

Sapphire Pool

The sultry sapphire pool beckons me;

siren calls seduce me deep

into the hues so blue I wonder

if this is the color of god?

And if it is–

what am I to do?

Sulfur rises and the earth’s core rises

and I watch my shadow as it rises

drifting over the edges of earth

hovering above crust so fragile

that if my own flesh approached

I would melt into this rising magma

Do I bow? Do I pray? Do I close my eyes–

blindly follow into this absence

amidst all that is

What can be said to everything

accumulating to this _____

only to form

The deepest nothing I’ve ever known

An emptiness so holy, I am whole

So if I meet this moment again–

I will let down my hair, remove my shoes,

step gracefully and deeply into the Blue

asking god to melt it all away until I AM

Nothing but the rising of electric

hue so haunting, it’s not even blue

Color so palpable, it can’t be seen

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