Dark Awareness

When you were asleep, certain nights,
and it was new moon…no lights…you
woke up and it was dark…completely…
and if you stayed still enough in bed, it
was as if you almost weren’t there, but,
you were aware that you were aware, a
dark awareness, marveling in the lack
of anything to be aware of…you move
your hand slightly and it echos…”ping!”
…the whole body is still there…then you
sink back again, into the dark stillness…
feeling the body as a kind of raft…on a
vast ocean of depth…what you wake into
when you die.