It's been fascinating and amazing to experience different kinds of ecstasy. I used a capitalized "You" while I was trying to figure out how to think and feel about divinity as the source but as somehow different from these human experiences. Maybe it would just be better to speak in terms of Presence, but using pronouns can make it easier to write poetry.
Sometimes people get a whiff, a glimpse, or a taste of these sorts of experiences, and they can't help but wish for more. When that desire for the whole thing all-at-once is brought together with equanimity, the context is set as an invitation for these experiences to return or remain. It might be natural enough to lament that some of this experience is momentary, but the lament is unnecessary. Just because the Presence is not so obvious or strong in my awareness or transcendent, that does not mean it is gone. It makes more sense to me to pray or meditate than lament.
Tonight, a heartbeat
faster than my heartbeat, or,
by now, it could be morning.
Time always changes around You.
Either faster, or
blending into forever.
The pulse quickens;
my heart leaps to catch up,
but You
are already gone.
Now, serenity.
A glimse of You
is somehow already
eternity.
Copyright 2007 Todd Mertz