It's all in my mind

I see people busy themselves

Focused on their destinations.

They do not see what unfolds above them.

I breathe and raise my head.

The majestic clouds billow,

Sailing slowly, silently, across the sky.

The clouds transform and part.

The setting sun wraps itself

In the blue blanket of the sky and sleeps.

Stars appear, shy at first,

Twinkling tentatively in the black velvet,

Then blazing with the glory of a billion years

The universe reveals itself

In all the enormity of the now.

I dwell in the moment and the moment dwells in me

I realise with awe that

All I see, all I hear, all I feel,

Everything that I call real is here within my mind

Author's Note

I'm not sure about the order of the last two verses.
I've swapped them over now .. so the last is not "I realise with awe...".

Reviews

[Glen Yumang Manese]

As with society...
they do not stop and smell the rose...
just go about their day or night...
in the robotic world they live in...

I realise with awe that
All I see, all I hear, all I feel,
Everything that I call real is here within my mind

As for your author's note --- I'd go reverse...

The universe reveals itself
In all the enormity of the now.
I dwell in the moment and the moment dwells in me

I realise with awe that
All I see, all I hear, all I feel,
Everything that I call real is here within my mind

Since the title gives this verse...
not just that...
but the way it ends gives more emphasis...IMPO...

[Rogie-Dodge]

I'll try it the other way. Both seemed to work, it was difficult to decide which order to put them .. I kept changing my mind. I'd write it one way ... like it .. read it again, and think 'no' :D :P

[Glen Yumang Manese]

You're the writer...just keep things in perspective...whichever you choose --- I'm sure the point is still made within the lines...

[Zahra]

I dwell in the moment and the moment dwells in me. Beautiful poem.

[Rogie-Dodge]

Thanks, that's my favorite line. I wanted it to be the last line of the poem, but I'd need to restructure things a bit to do that .. it didn't really work with the last two verse swapped. I may come back and change it (hopefully improve it) later.

[Aethereal]

Well structured free verse. It seems that you ‘re the Adoration within each infinitesimal moment. What would be the reason for anything existing at all if it had no way of being aware of itself? Awareness gives everything meaning. Our universe conspires to fabricate Adoration. Adoration adores itself as well in a feedback loop.

[Rogie-Dodge]

Nicely put :D