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Looking forward

Fabrice Poussin

Fixed to an image yet unseen,
the pupils focus and shrink to a pin,
the observer must remain steady,
to discover the secret he seeks.

As if a heartbeat had been silenced,
the body is still, the skin barely shivers,
only sight is yet capable of perceiving,
as all energies are thus focused.

He must not allow his soul to flutter,
for the moment may be lost forever;
nothing can be allowed to interrupt
a dialogue without words, or scents,

or sounds, or touch. Sole the image
will provide the story in need;
participant to the tiny dimension,
he prepares to disappear within.

For thousands of years he may so be,
exchanging a vocabulary of pulses,
small and large, directly to his heart,
eternally to the soul being born.

Stranger he will cease to know that which is,
or seems to be, to enjoy simply being
what he once felt, though he not lived,
leaving behind a shell, paper thin to the breeze.

A puzzle to those lagging in their falsity;
should they dare attempt to waken him?
Into a mist this body will vanish into a cloud
of dust, not unlike that of a comet.

Essence completed, he is now immortality,
one with the atom, his faithful accomplice,
his teacher, his master, in fact his father,
the cord has once again given breath of life.

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