Open Windows

I finished grading my assignments tonight and was reflecting on life. There is a really good book called "Einsteins Dreams," by Alan Lightman. It is different viniettes on time. One of these stories is about time being frozen and everything is at a standstill. Thats it. Then he goes on to tell in what way everyone is frozen and what they were doing and a story that comes from a place where time stands still. I was reflectin on time standing still for all of us and there are so many of us, friends and family, that are at different phases of life.


OPEN WINDOWS

For a moment I reflect
Frozen in time
Reflecting on events
Like bells doth chime

As if looking through windows
We see each other
Experiencing what we have done
One to another

The joy and pain
That falls like rain
Effects us to heights
Of both suffering and delight

Through one window we see
The impending loss of another
And reflect on that loss
To our sister and brother

Through another we doth see
The loneness that surrounds
Another loved one
With no one around

I reach out with hand on that pane
Hoping somehow
To take away the pain
When outside on me
It doth rain

What is that glass
Through which we cannot pass
Keeping each other
From connecting
One to another

Dare to open
Those windows in life
Let in the loved ones
And ease the strife

We must dare to share
Our joys and pains
Together so much more
To gain
The answer still
Doth remain
-shiidon, June 2008