In a state of harmonic, suspended animation, I await patiently as a dissonance held for a seeming eternity quietly resolves into a soothing consonance that says all is right within my universe.
Floating through space, enamored of aural and visual beauties t hat accompany the lone traveler sojourning through the ether ... Supernal, glorious worlds beckon him, their holding in store treasures amassed long before he became aware of realities beyond his finite, terrestrial sphere.
Wishing to be removed from the anxieties and paltry cares of existence upon this orb I call home, I have traveled to another dimension through a means ever at my disposal ... my imagination.
My imagination has been nourished by tales told and written long ago: stories of love and courage; adventures upon the high seas; dramas played out in the courts of kings. They have made their way to the stacks of the world's libraries. A book in hand is one of several gateways to the universe.
And beyond....
Desperate longing for my true home will not, of itself, propel me any the more quickly toward that for which my wasted heart pines. From this tiny patch of earth that I occupy, I look into the vastness of sky and see the superb lark in steep ascent or the fragile damselfly flitting about the oleander. These simple yet superb creatures cannot know in their spirals and darts that I, anchored so firmly to terra, am in envy of such unbridled liberty that they, winged creatures, possess; however ...
An otherworldly presence coaxes me ever so gently, and I am intoxicated and become captive to its allure. The seduction is complete. There is no resolve, hence, no resistance proceeding from my gladly incapacitated self. Drawing me into a swirl of infinite blues and grays, I feel no dizziness at all, such as when I took to the Earth's seas. What once was a dream of many a restless eve, has now come fulfilled as reality in clear and unassailably palpable relief. The tableau set before me is an expansive 'scape of celestial bodies in sharply defined orbit, charted and preordained from time unknown.
At one with the cosmos, I rejoice at so long an awaited shuffling off of human care and toil....
