Eternity in our Hearts

We have eternity framed in such
frail fleshly cases
An ill wind
pushes us in our place
for a while
The wind can't blow out the
pilot light that is our soul
until it's time for us to move on

My casing is so fragile lately
time to ponder
and reflect
the breathless incandescence that
is our lives
fleeting memories making up that time
velvetfuzzydaze
whoosh it's gone in a haze
as the hands of our life clock wind down

in the quiet of my illness
enforced inactivity
stillness
there is no fear
for what will come

only an anticipation
of a new soul situation
all of the lessons
in that time to be learned