Effervescent Presence

Beyond the monochrome and robotic routine
            of mind and muscle memory

Above the city hummmmm and orderly conduct
            of electric static and follow-the-leaders

There’s another layer of existing
that’s just as real and truthful, if not more so

Impossible to manufacture or describe, this way of being
you know it when you see it –
            a certain twinkle in the eye
            that reveals a universe expanding, inside

If you listen closely,
            you’ll hear their rhythmic daydreams
If you close your eyes,
            you’ll feel their sparkling presence
If you look to the heavens
            you’ll see a sky changed by their effervescence