David Lauterstein

​I SAW GOD DOWN AT BARTON SPRINGS
 
He was in the arm upraised above the water
He was in the grasses swaying on the bottom
He was in the lifeguard
            in his eyes
            and everywhere in his body
He was in the wind
And in the clouds
And in the warming sun.
He was in the sounds that hit my ears
He was coolness
He was hot
He was in the rocks
He was solid
He was in my breath
He was in what the plants exhaled
He was in the divine bikini.
 
I saw God down at Barton Springs
He had on a bathing cap
He was having a good time floating
            between the molecules of oxygen and hydrogen
He was walking slowly
He was sad
He was a delighted child's scream
He was stretching
He was talking to his wife.
 
He was everything I saw
and felt and heard
He was gritting his teeth
He was wearing white socks
He fell from a tree
            as a leaf.
He and only he is 100% here.
There is nowhere else to be for all eternity
Just here
100% at this moment
“Matter and energy intraconvert in
            a cosmic dance of form and force.”
We have always been here.
We always will be here.
And that's how I saw
God at Barton Springs.
 
~  David Lauterstein