(background music Isaac Shepard “All Smiles”)
All I want
is everything —
It’s not too much to ask
All I want is oneness
To soar in tune
in the surging seething symphony
of being
To be the roaring pounding flow
of all things living
To have my own song
constantly meet its harmony
My rhythm locked ecstatically
in polyrhythmic counterpoint
My down-bounce catapulting
someone else’s flight
All I want
in this moment
is the bright contact
that multiplies light
That pulses back the richest chord
and wraps us
in its sacred ring of sound.
©Wendy Mulhern
March 11, 2012
Background music doesn't play when viewed on iPod
hmm – I wonder what that's about. But you can hear the poem?