" I Have Seen The Face Of God "

In the beauty of my nightmare, I was awakened
Into the recognition of "your" dreams
And in them.....the confusion
Was so irate and ugly
That when I shook my head........searching
For rationality
Rationality, screamed at me
And here's what I held onto
In those moments
So far
Beyond me......

 

I learned, that there are not words
For that which I wish to communicate
The world is not meant to be understood
But to be grappled with
In the in-betweens
Those moments when the world seems upside down
And then we communicate
What it seemed
To be the confusion in the Bible
Of all things
And the crazy shower that washed away our pains
Not just
From the night before
but from the many lifetimes
Many lifetimes before
The things that only present themselves
Between understanding what things truly mean
The gateway
Is not in the things we know
But in the imagining
Of human possibilities
And in those very moments
When your best friend doesn't see
The God you intimately converse with
Just because they're afraid
Of the unknown things...

The things we never talk about
Because when our "Best Friend" calls us crazy
Life no longer
Means a friggin' thing
Because it's not the wife or children
Laying down the rules
It's the power in our mind-words
Given to ourselves
That make our golden rules
And when we're given the God-given choice
To negotiate with ourselves
That we finally see
That it's not you
But it's the HIM
I feel in me
And when I truly recognize
That I'm the one with whom I may applaud
I know that my friends have shown me
The unrecognizable
Face of God.......

Tony Taylor   (Chicago)