(Real life Experience)
I had seen it with my very eyes, time and time again.
At first, I was bewildered, next mystified, afterwards astonished.
So much so that I would purposely rebuff the apparition.
To ward off the emerging fright to quiet me down.
But it refused to expire.
The phantom image would reveal itself as it pleased –
Any time of the day and wherever I might be
In the midst of a chore, as I enjoyed a tête-à-tête.
Even when I closed my eyes.
The sight stayed and stayed and stayed.
Was I just dreaming?
But I was wide awake!
What was it then?
I kept seeing it.
I told you I wasn’t in deep sleep.
It was broad daylight.
I was in the kitchen,
Perhaps in the garden.
Probably just strolling along.
There! It was there again!
Glimpse of meadows saying hi to my eyes.
So green with a white path in between.
So distant and so long I couldn’t see the end.
I shook my head and closed my eyes.
But it kept on flashing again and again.
The green fields and the white path!
Staying, dwelling in my bamboozled mind
Nobody could explain what it was.
Nobody could tell why I was seeing it.
Then one day, a spiritual man came along.
He asked if he could bless and pray for me.
I told him the thing that had long bothered me.
He reached for his bag
Took out something and lifted it up.
“My daughter” he called my name
Showed me what he got.
Locking his eyes with mine, he asked,
“Daughter, is this the one you have been seeing so often?”
“Oh, oh”… I stared at the object
Gripping the arms of my chair, I uttered
“OLAM?”
He said calmly, “You saw a vision, my daughter”
“OLAM”, “is this the one you saw my dear?”
“OLAM”
Right then and there
It became clear.
What I have been seeing is
A vision, indeed, a vision
A vision I long to see… time and time again.
The vision flashed in 2006
Revised February, 2019