Aerial View

“Serenity of Soul”
Painting by Delawer-Omar
From deviantart.com

floating outside and above oneself

watching each movement and motive

a doppelgang presence untethered

objective yet intimate inside-out

shadows of mind melt in sunlight

revealing the shape of each internal

conflict each unconscious choice

love or hate fight or flight to belong

or be gone to believe or deny to

embrace or rebuff trust or doubt

easy questions with difficult answers

here the hovering self draws a bead

from these rarefied clarified heights

maps the mindless mechanics the

arcane emotional math of ambivalent

passions this out-of-self self takes

its airborne perspective informing

identity free from terrestrial taints

not a trace of pedestrian odors

survive in these clean breezy precincts

aeolian free yet invested in how

the man walking below makes his way

through the muck and the mire of life

this affinitve being this airy reflection

man’s own metaphysical touchstone

his de facto ethereal archetype angel