In the Space of a Breath

In the Space of a Breath

Before I was I

I was other.

Created yet unborn.

Waiting for that timeless spark

that brought me here,

through the gate between becoming and being.

In the space of a breath

this body caught me

And here I will remain

until

in the space of a breath

I am released.

And after I am I

I will be other.

Created and undying.

For souls are not born.

They enter.

And do not die.

They exit.

All that is just a firefly's blink

against a sea of stars.

originally written 2005