The stillness beneath

stillness...the gentle pause of a hush between heartbeats, the moment when the world holds its breath**** it is the mirror-like lake at dawn, unbroken by ripple or whisper,****reflecting the heavens with flawless devotion.

it is the untouched snowfall resting upon the earth like a fleeting melody, each flake cradled in silence****it is the hush of twilight, when even the trees seem reluctant to stir****wrapped in the velvet embrace of night****it is the weightless drift of a single feather****suspended in a moment that never asks to pass****in perfect stillness, time is not lost...it simply chooses not to move.

It is then that I rise from beneath the surface...born of the elements

I am both darkness and light

Stillness and motion

A personification of light breaking water

Flowing, pure...untamed

Beneath the ripples, I exist beyond time.

I am light, illuminating the heavens

I am fluid...flowing

Infinite, pure...unstoppable.

Shimmering...Delicate...

The light and I are as one

Light bends, twists, leaps...twirls,

Dances through air...on golden wings.

As if through glass, a prism of feathery silk,

Delectable in its gossamer tango

Splitting colors, refraction shifts askew,

Changing angles, shifting hues.

A mirror.

Light turns...defiant.

Reflection echoes...a gleam,

Like memories cast in silver dreams.

It scatters wide when mist breathes,

Painting halos in the dawn.

Diffraction...waves entwine,

Creating patterns to divinity.

Light... It moves unseen

A silent artist of shadow and ray.

Light breaks water

Water embraces light

Illuminating and bathing the world

In a glorified pageantry of splendor!