Hail the Great Fish

Dear unborn fellow ones

the ones to come, dear Souls

when the deep night is brooding with me

pounding slowly between my eardrums

images wake and rise

and then I can sense you

I sense you

as you are patiently waiting

inside inside

these dark hollows of the dark great old fish

the great mysterious numinous fish

deep down in the vast ocean

drifting slow and effortless in zero gravity

Drifting slow and effortless

releasing little bubbles:

you

breathing out little bubbles on and on:

you...us

rising slowly through these silent vast waters:

life

and you rise and rise and tumble-wobble

til one day comes a time

when you reach that crucial surface

-plopp-

into this open eternal sky

oh souls

If I had the chance for one ultimate

out-into-space message for you future-ones

I'd whisper:

Remember

even if many others of your time tell different

remember:

Your heart is the vital earth-grown pounding center

through which you are buttoned into the great web

the stake, driven rythmically into this very soil

around which all the threads and strands are knit

the light bulb

the one thing that was handed to you

by the Great Mystery to experience itself

the one thing that was given to you

for the Great Work