A Hymn For Our New Year: 2016 Ce Poem by Daniel Brick

As if the bloom of flowers lasted
into the next dry season, as if summer's
warmth embraced autumn's chill, as if
our union stretched across vast prairies.

As if everything we knew as reality shifted
and handy dandy we knew it all as fantasy.
As if we became guardians of all the dreams
when they slowly swelled into awakened being.

As if saints and sanctuaries were commonplace.
As if virtues smothered vices, and people,
released from the weight of sin, light-hearted and
light-headed, joined the circle dance of the spheres.

As if every language became language of the heart,
as if every heart spoke only truth to other hearts,
as if truth bonded heart to heart in everlasting amity.
As if we were persuaded this world is a Paradise-Garden -

Because we made it so, by turning AS IF into IT IS.