worlds within worlds
July 15, 2019worlds within worlds,
islands of light in oceans of timeless waiting,
clusters of lives that we could have lived
or may have lived and do not remember
all layered in the mind
slowly rotating, folding, unfolding -
muffled steps in narrow corridors
frozen blood vessels,
secret gates of more unfathomable worlds;
one day we’ll move freely
from this life into a parallel one
across voices and echoes
through labyrinths made of butterfly wings -
maybe one day
silence and words
will spiral into perfectly shaped stars.