imagination be damned
I am here
I am now
and to no other's reality
but God's
will I denounce my place
nor presume to reprimand
my untimely arrival upon
such delicious clarity
my how the spirit can be
so very quiet
yet all the more constant
I am blessed
to have witnessed
its boundless introduction
I shall not fail
mine higher self again.............
(April 30, 1998)