Gifted in the Glass

Reflected in your past is always

your future

Be the past recent...this life

or ancient in awareness...... lives lived before

In the backwards glance

the forward movement

can be gauged

Retrospect respected

You are here, now

in my present

You will be here

in my future

You have always been...here...somehow

This knowledge I innately possessed

It was respectfully reflected

in the magic mirror of the past

Each time I will remember to

open my eyes to the past

As I gaze into the glass

of my searching, my inner knowing

For if I look only

in one direction

I dishonor my ability to

Respect the retrospect

In the looking glass pointing past

I know you were always there, there you were

Practicing your patience.... waiting for me to

Respect the retrospect gifted in the glass