Burka Blue

Art by Ruth Schowalter (aka Hallelujah Truth)

When it happens to you…

When it happens to you the stars will come down

flood down through the top of your head –

their light will fill you up completely.           

You will walk vibrating through the dark of a soft summer night

in and out of shadows – past tents strung with lights –

men and women laughing and singing.

You will pass a few people in the dark.

You love them instantly and completely –

star’s light shining on them all.

You will lie wide awake all night

that tremor running through you –

while the air moves from the open window across you.

At dawn you will rise up refreshed and go walking.

You will finally know what it is –

you will finally be ready.

From When It Happens to You Poems by Alice Teeter, copyright 2009, published by Star Cloud Press, Scottsdale, AZ