What Is That Sound

A Poem

It can only be detected In those rare moments When I can immerse myself in silence So that I can not only listen But perceive As if it seeps through my very pores

Like a heart beat But much more At first it seems like it comes from within me Then somehow also I hear it within my wife Something within our dog and cat joins in the music For that is now what it appears to be A one note melody As it intensifies It appears that the sound emanates from our house as well How can this be

Have my senses deceived me For now the same note expands Its source without as well as within Marked by a beauty so wonderful As to cause tears to arise Not from sadness But rather from an indescribable joy

The entire neighborhood reverberates with the one beat As my hearing becomes more acute My understanding of the phenomenon grows as well It has no limit My puny intellect was simply unable to grasp its scope and depth All people everywhere Every living vessel today And those in the past Every place everywhere and throughout time carries this harmonic seed

Nature herself is not sufficient a word to capture its reach The very planet From its molten core To the deepest valleys of its oceans The skies above to the outer limits of this universe and all universes We are joined as one Nothing is outside All is blessed All is loved