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A Windchime
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What do you think about?
When you hear a windchime
That’s a good question!
Here’s my answer:
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Early in my life
I was scared of time
Like sand in the hourglass
I knew that it wouldn’t last
How much do I get?
What do I do with the rest of it?
3.
Right by the koi pond
Wave your magic wand
Frozen there below
I am lost in thought
I’m so far away from
Where or what I am
Then I hear a windchime, in eardrum
Then I wake from daydream, into this
4.
What I knew outside my window
Four years since I heard the birds
I’ve been in a fog, a freefall
Feathertongue, I lost my words
In my head, waiting for vision
Standing still for a voice to return
When I’m patient and I wait
What shows up for me? Belief…
I think about two separate times
Where I’ve been out on a walk
And noticed those 10,000 leaves
Yet there is only one leaf, like a hand
Waving back and forth at me
Like you used to
5.
How many songs does the windchime know?
Is it 200? Or is it just one longer song?
Unfurling thing?
That lasts forever until it is done?
Suddenly it has been
15 years since then
Standing there in the kitchen
For my 18th birthday
Scared to leave it all behind
You looked me in the eye
Hand on my shoulder and
Said that “it only gets better…”
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What is real life?
Is it in this email?
Is it on this walk to my job?
Is it on the ground, where I’m looking?
Is it way up there in the sky, beyond what I can see?
Is it in the future?
Is it in my worries about the weather?
Is it where I’m most afraid to look?
Is it way deep down in the dark and trapped in a cave?
Is it burning in my hand and too hot to the touch?
Is it something that I cannot ever hear no matter what?
Is it something that I already learned and don’t remember?
Is it something that I can only know when the wind finally stops?
When everything is quiet, and there is no more song?
Can I realize what it is?
While it still is?
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Ben Swisher Salt Lake City, Utah
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