Soul Signatures Imbued

Stemming from inner sounds that ride on silently
words are worlds imbued with feeling:
soul signatures of lives of others and ourselves.

When we, in harmony and orchestrated movement
are carriers of information for one another,
so subtly offered by our inner selves
as if a breath of air
had tapped a tiny leaf in passing,
like woodland ancestors who left their signs,
each race, each tribe alive in our own ancient memories
forever speaking if we listen,
then is each new and unborn species
communicating in the spacious now.

Messages are given and received
from loving inner selves
through form and pattern,
through spoken and written word
in timeliness and coinciding incidences
through hints from the most unlikely sources,
like zip codes, ads or license plates
to find, or not to find, meaningful associations
tailored
to our specific purposes and needs.

There are pages we have not written
which others have reserved for us.
By reading unfamiliar passages
we put our stamp upon those pages
and next time ’round
we recognize them as our own.

Like traveling back and forth through  time,
like fertilizing fossils
and making the extraneous essential once again.

Life becomes simple. There’s rhyme and reason
everywhere if we but see, acknowledge, and accept it.

Ute Kaboolian
November 1987