Un-Awareness

Power of your presence

Scorches my smallness….

How did I not see you

All these years

As you grew,

Blossomed,

Changed,

Turned unrecognizable

And flew?

Did I drink

In your benevolence

As you gave yourself away

Drop-by-drop

Pint-by-pint

And swelled

Into the shape of oceans?

Did I think

With closed eyes

Seeing shapes

You’d outgrown

While you transformed

Into butterflies

Made of light?

Power of your presence

Mocks my awareness….