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Remember Me As A Time of Day
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On a day most assuredly as benign as the one to follow, on a day where things have come to pass, permit me to leave you with a thought…
When I die and the tolls have been paid to the Boatman of Never Never, causing my soul to leave this fleshly body and rejoin the ocean of consciousness that you may call Heaven, please remember me. But not as a man, or even as an idea, but as a time of day…
That brief period in the morning when the ground is lush with the moisture of the air. When it is neither light nor dark, but a dusky peaceful gray with rays of hope creeping up from behind the horizon. That wondrous moment when the air is so crisp it almost hurts to breathe too deeply, but you crave the sweet nectar of atmosphere with an automatonic obsession you could never describe and willfully consume without hesitation.
Its that time of day when the deer are softly trotting through the trees: both together and so clearly apart, scouring the green earth for hope. When the air hangs over your head as a nebulous haze and you want to believe that today will be a better day. And you exhale, only to see the workings of your body join the fog around your head. And you know…
Today will be a better day.
Yes, when I pass, remember me. But do not remember the man, or even the idea…remember the time you first felt wonder…in this world so unsure…like when I was a boy camping with my father and the pale yellow of sunlight on a cold November morning and the shuffle of deer in the wilderness beyond made me hope….
That today would be a better day.