Very Advanced

Sometimes Life says, 
Hey, jump off this cliff 

And you, being very advanced, say,
Sure thing let me get my parachute!

And sometimes, Life slowly 
shakes its head back-and-forth 

And you, being very advanced, 
realize you are being asked 
to simply jump

No protection
No back up plan
No way out

At certain levels of reality, 
the ground is very solid and real
and you know this

But at certain levels of reality
there is no ground
or you have wings
or spaceships are real 
or you simply are the air
and you know this,
at least, intellectually

But sometimes life asks you 
to know something 
in your bones

The same bones, who will either 
hit the pavement
or internalize the awareness
that at some levels of reality

there is only gentleness
and floating
and flying
and magic

which is to say that the physics 
at some levels of reality 
are really wild 

And you, being very advanced,
need to know this
in your bones 

---

From my unpublished book of poetry, Star Panther

Photo by Bernard Hermant in Unsplash