Reaching Through to the Other Side

Though there is stillness I can hear a heartbeat

Though I can't see you I can hear a sound

Through a veil I feel a hand near me

Reaching through to the other side

I receive this body mine

From womb to grave

I now walk an ancient line

One foot follows the other

This stone, this finite place

Is it limitless?

To touch the boundless

I hear a measureless rise

It seems so wondrous

Just to be alive

Hindrances, distresses of substance

I turn them over

Those forgotten I remember

And gather them up in my arms

Like some magic thing twisted and winding

It carries me on

Oh how gorgeous, oh how gorgeous to struggle now

To struggle now in time