Eden's end.

I had a dream last night...

That so very long ago, before human history even began, we "humans" (in a similar but not equal form to who/what we are now) lived exclusively underwater - in a highly salinated ocean, to be specific. Communication was not by sound, due to water preventing clear verbal communicative success. However, the sensory deprivation of the water allowed us to feel beyond our skin, to hear beyond our ears, to worry less about sight and more about feeling and thought. This difference in environment allowed us to connect to each other more deeply, with untethered minds, without word or movement. Physical touch without being reminded of the confines of body and form provoked such understanding, compassion, empathy, and interrelation. No secrets needed, no explanations demanded for actions or choices, for energy was felt, and simply understood.

In the dream, eventually, we became curious about what lay outside beyond our watery home. Some started popping their heads above the surface now and then, to try to look around, but gravity's weight and the eyes' attempt to see through the dry air were difficult. But slowly, over time, some were able to adjust themselves. Two in particular, a mated couple, would slowly drag themselves to a shore for a short time, their skin pores seeking oxygen from dry atmosphere in vain, fighting the push of gravity toward the ground for as long as they could tolerate. With slow, deliberate training, they learned to blink their eyes into focus, to open their mouths and allow small amounts of air into confused lungs instead of breathing with skin. Intrigued by the feeling of heat on skin, tightened form of body edges, and the colors and sounds so new on this land, the two could not stop visiting... They taught others how to slowly desensitize themselves to gravity, to air, to temperature difference, to sounds, sights... To begin to sit up, stand, and even walk on the new ground, despite the loss of their familiar weightlessness.

Some chose to stay out of the water more than they stayed in. Readjusting back to breathing through skin became harder, and return less of an option for many. In time, one unexpected and undesired consequence became brutally obvious - without the weightlessness of the water, the loosened edges of skin within salt water, the quieting of noise and tempering of light, communication with each other strained, and physical touch felt less connected. But by then, it was too late to return - skin had lost it's ability how to breathe of the water, lungs refused to give up the air they'd grown to love within them, eyes ached when returned to the salt of home.

Noises and motions were required to achieve even the simplest of communications, and verbal language developed. Muscles tightened and strengthened in the harsh gravity of the land. Shelter, food, and heat were found to be essential for this new, fierce-some survival.

Frustration, and growing disconnection caused anger, fear, competition, blame... Eventually, one was killed by another. Nothing of the like had been known ever before. Death, yes, but to cause the death of another? In the water, age itself was slow and weak, death was usually by accident, and revered as returning to the source of all life and light. But how could these believes be rectified if a death was instigated by one of their own, and what to do with that one to prevent repeating by others???


A pair of lovers left their world within the sea, and lead a migration from that heaven, a slow movement that could never be undone. Fallen off a precipice of curiosity and consequence, Eden ended.

And the harsh life of humanity, in its place, was born.


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your lead

where do we go from here
i cant feel the rhythm of this dance
not this time
i feel the sway
but can't find my feet
then i spin, as you grin,
and feel somehow incomplete

turn the music up
so the bass line rings clear
turn the music up
so my voice will sing
through tears
through fears
un-grounded
ever pounded
into a brain and through the frame
of strength i try to build
i feign

now we waltz
and spin again
do i feel rain?
or is it just pain
unknowing aches
helplessness rakes
will fades and breaks
and i swing back,
forth
in your arms
in your wake
unseen.

turn the music up
so the base line rings clear
turn the music up
so my voice will sing
through tears
through fears

let my feet
dance
with wings.
-hv-
08/16/16


#hopevali #contradictivehope #yourlead #wheredowegofromhere #dance #poetry

cometh to view

I can sense your presence
But I cannot see you near
I can feel you coming
But now I cannot hear
your move.

Clarity of reality fogs
Density in your truth
Disheartened faith to blissful next
Flow a wish you'd prove
once surety's widsom
finally cometh to view.


hv 4/6/16


#hopevali #contradictivehope #comethtoview #poetry