The milk of millennia

I am part of the load

not rightly balanced.

I drop off in the grass,

like the old cave-sleepers, to browse

wherever I fall.

For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust grains

floating and flying in the will of the air,

often forgetting ever being

in that state, but in sleep

I migrate back. I spring loose

from the four-branched, time-and-space cross,

this waiting room.

I walk into a huge pasture.

I nurse the milk of millennia.

Everyone does this in different ways.

Knowing that conscious decisions

and personal memory

are much too small a place to live,

every human being streams at night

into the loving nowhere, or during the day,

in some absorbing work.

Rumi