All Hallow's Eve - a Spirit's Passage
From the place beyond description -
The Otherworld below and above and around you,
Where I was more than a phantom
Of a life once rich with physicality,
I emerge slowly, a mist.
The annual memory of senses
Takes my essence by surprise and rushes
Upon me in the silvered light
Of a gravid satellite, la Luna
As she stares, a single eye upon the rade.
Crowding around me, unfathomable
To those who dwell in matter dense
Are my brothers and sisters
The ghosts and gods - the Fae and demons
An incorporeal host in revelry.
The chill wind rattles vivid leaves
Upon the drowsy darkened greenery;
A pellucid night in tattered cloud raiment
Is ideal for this time of our abandon
When all requests for bounty must be honored.
For just one night, we dance unfettered
In the world that the rules deny us commonly.
I watch you - what once I was
Before the transformation took
What is called "life" and gave another reality.
I see the children in their masks and paint
Each a different mind and soul
One day to join us, but for now they grow
Their actuality is this night of celebration
Of remembering the gifts of life and death.
