Close your eyes

I woke up early this morning and somehow started listening to the James Taylor song, Close Your Eyes. My mood began to drift. I began to feel a dreamy state, where feelings and emotions explain themselves in new ways.
My life became a river and I a stone, things from the past flowing farther and farther away, disappearing behind me as if they never existed.
You Can Close Your Eyes, it’s alright.
We grab, we grab, because we don’t want to disappear, but instead everything that we have ever known begins to disappear.
We only have so much attention and if we give it to the past, to our memories we don’t have that much left for now.
So, i tell myself, it’s ok, close your eyes, feel the water flowing over your skin, feel the sun shining, no, worship the sun, take it through your skin, through your closed eyes, into your being. Close your eyes, feel life pulsing through breath and being.
I am a rock in the river, time is the river and is flowing past me, alternating, breakneck and slow motion.

I am the rock and I am here in forever.