Light

 I am with you, 
Always...
I am estranged...
I am present...
I am an absent friend...
I am everywhere...
I am nowhere...
I am frozen in time...
I dream you,
And you dream me...
Even light years apart,
We create this world
Together,
In unison...
I am harmony...
I am the raised hairs 
On the back of your neck
In the dark of night...
Gooseflesh skin reacting to touch,
Warm under the blankets...
A shimmer in reaction to a memory
That eludes firm grasp in your mind...
A comforting illusion that feels so real...
A focused thought that has no intention...
I am a heretic...
I am a creator god...
I am a barren rock floating in space...
I am no more than an idea,
Unformed and intangible...
I am inspiring...
I am desolation...
I am flesh and blood and bone...
Fire and water, earth and air...
I am energy condensed into matter...
The faster I travel,
The more dense I become...
The further I run from myself,
The closer I get to myself...
When I embrace you,
After years of wandering,
You are embracing yourself...
When I try too hard,
I collapse like a massive sun
Becoming a black hole...
I become a doorway to another place,
Another time...
I cycle like the seasons...
I pulse like a neutron star...
I explode into a glowing nebula...
I am universal...
Overcrowded and alone...
I am thriving communities,
Planets teeming with life...
I am a dying star swallowing the same
As it expands, 
Vomiting forth its outer shell...
I am everywhere you look,
And you are everywhere I go...
I am extraordinary, 
And I am painfully ordinary...
We are the same...
We are light...