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