Cosmically

I closed my eyes and slipped my skin,

like vapor I floated.

There was no resistance, such as would be felt from water.

It seemed I was everywhere and

nowhere

simultaneously.

I felt I should have questions, desires.

Is knowledge sought? Are there even answers?

I became aware of a feeling, a feeling of connection.

Of existing as a part of a larger whole,

stretching to infinity.

And in realizing this I gained the ability to see

what I could not even have comprehended a moment ago.

So simple, so elemental.

I woke.

It was still there, starring at me.

But somehow I’d lost the sight, the ability to even sense

the existence of it or remember

having known it.

It had slipped back behind the veil,

though somehow I felt an emptiness,

a lacking, of something found, then lost.