To Float With Light

Lantern floating by Jered Odegard www.flickr.com/photos/jeredodegard/4070156541/in/faves-30561723@N0 (via pixdaus.com)

Still, what I want in my life

is to be willing

to be dazzled ~

to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even

to float a little

above this difficult world.

I want to believe I am looking

into the white fire of a great mystery.

Reference: Excerpt from “Snake”

Oliver, Mary. House of Light. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.