time and temporality

(for dreamers and for planners)



we look

we hear

we wonder

as we wander

like the song

out under the sky

or being still

having gone nowhere

perforce

or by design

the need to have some time

an hour or a day

in which we do not move

but traverse everything

inside

and inside



where shall we go

what shall we

hear

what shall we

see

what shall we smell

or get a taste of

what is the other sense

what shall we taste



though we may

also travel throughout

time

slip into other states of being

as our possibilities

visit other worlds

that we make

for moments

that never happened

though we may go there

for the possibility

the changes

the resolutions

never having taken place

except there

in what we visit

on the inside

that time and life

under the sun

never allowed



waking issues

that are not solved

out here



but we should

do this

this is good

a friend of mine might say

about ideas

when we planned things

together

in the day



this added time to dream

might engender

visions

three dimensions

only

but good experiences for

our constituencies

starting with

those of

one

then two



and who’s to say

the dimension of the spirit

or the spirits

will not be joining us



the outer life

the inner life

somehow touched and satisfied

through dreaming and

then

through waking



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I wonder as I wander, out under the sky,

how Jesus the Savior did come for to die

for poor ordinary people like you and like I;

I wonder as I wander, out under the sky.

adapted by John Jacob Niles



photo by Ferdinand Stöhr on Unsplash

"Sunset in Vancouver"