Colors Arrival

Just before my departure

The arrival infuses color

Into my packing, packing light

Colors carry no weight

Lifting my pack altogether,

Even lightening my load

As I am leaving behind my beloveds

Yet carrying no weight of longing

As I bring paints of play

Tones of enlightening

of universal creativity

To dance upon my Way

Coloring my departure

as more toward

some unexplained delight

Like a mysterious sunrise

in my cupped palms

pulling me forward along an internal horizon

Than away from

some unexplained exile

Like an unknown shadow

Between my shoulder blades

pushing me back into a forest of banishment

Though colors wrap my skin

Their true power coats within

An arrival toward a horizon

never reached,

yet infinitely colored

by my responses to LIFE’s

unnameable beauty