A Subtle Glow Softly Sizzling

author’s note:

At first, I thought it was the refrigerator…

…then I discovered I was the one humming.


A SUBTLE GLOW SOFTLY SIZZLING

Sometimes when I stop
if I wait long enough
I’ll experience a feeling
which I will describe as
a subtle glow softly sizzling
from my bottom to my top:

an energy that seems to me to be
not of the body
though in the body--

must be what led the sages to say:
the divine lives within.

But knowing myself as I do
hard for me to accept
I’m so holy

until I recall another adage
from the sages:

we are not the light
only bearers of the torch
and how you bear
is your own choice.

A good belief, I think
and not just for me:

what if 7.7 billion believed
they shared the same light?

Maybe then we’d be
better torch bearers.

© 2019, Michael R. Patton
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