Sestina for You

Sestina For You, and You, and You…

     Wise, esteemed, beloved Master

     I swear there is a post of yours I have Seen

    Just hours ago, how, as we go round and round, we change the ways we Face

     Changing our understanding of people and concepts we’ve met Before

     My mind heard an answer to your post–it is Coming!

     But I’ve lost your poem, somewhere in the Mind of God, somewhere in Eternity

          TWO (F, G, P, Z)

     (Which seems strange to say, cuz if I lost it in Eternity it’s in No Time, and if I was in Time I wasn’t in Eternity)

     When I found the path I dreamt of the Ancient Egyptian Master

     He offered to teach me, I said I am Coming!

     You said that then and there Z you had Seen

     And P thought maybe we met there Before

     And I dreamt of that Master’s Face

          THREE (K)

     And She! She and I looked each other in the Face

     I said let us be father and daughter; she said maybe this is not our first time in Eternity

     She said maybe she was my mother Before

     Then she asked a thing I had not been able to Master

     No matter what, she needed the future to be Seen

     I said I will try; I think that skill may be Coming

         FOUR (K)

     First I saw past, a step pyramid and to her aid I was Coming

     Then I watched each of her bodies leave another, I saw her Face

     Her happy future appeared, I said have you Seen?

     It was there in the Mind of God, somewhere in ITS Eternity

     So I thanked the Master, and I thank you, Master

     You’ve shown me what I did not even dream of Before

         FIVE (F)

     Then Master you told me to travel Before

     To the instant ere Creation was Coming

     I said I was there, and I heard the sound, Master

     You said Correct, I am older than Creation, but younger than the ECK. Learn to project and I will see ITS Face

     Now I have visited rest points in Eternity

     So many people and places I’ve Seen

         SIX (V)

     And times past with you, Angel, I’ve been and Seen

     When Lincoln lived, and when fire and sulphur killed Before

     And again now, we fly together on the vigil of our life in Eternity

     For Consciousness 5 is here, and Consciousness 9 is Coming

     As soon as we are ready to Face

     That state to which we are invited by the Master

         ENVOI (Emily Dickenson, “A Wife at Daybreak,” reading in the Houghton MS)

      “Eternity, I’m Coming [sir]

      Master, I’ve Seen

      That Face Before”