CHAPTER 10 We are physical beings with a soul and a spirit? As I stared through the blind-horse tunnel-vision of my eyes, staring at my own reflection which was staring back through the mirror at me, I tried to see who I was inside. But my molten molasses soul could no more be seen than tasted, and my gaze became hazy and fuzzy and my bearings distorted, and then I felt someone looking through me, and myself. But as soon as I saw him, he was gone. Like the shadow of death behind your shoulder, lurking, waiting for the appointment penciled in on your biological calendar. The calendar with the picture of the Chinese fortune cookie, whose fortune has already been read and tossed to the side in disappointed disbelief. As I am looking out through me, who is it that I saw? An even deeper me? The me that touches all the universe. The me that is One in spirit with all that exists. "YES! I am your spirit!" a voice whispers, laughing. Me, myself and I, we watch as the pupils of our eyes grow larger and larger still. And then two pages burst within the black holes of our soul that lives within those pupils. They burst like flames of burning desires, rippling domino-like throughout time. "Chapter 9" the first page declares. "Chapter 10" the other informs. And then they run through the backroads of my mind on skinny legs into a worn-out sunset in still life blues, down another perfumed roadside. And they disappear forever. But of course, they're never really gone. just forgotten. until they're remembered. as all thoughts are. "What the hell was that all about?" Bo demanded as he gave me a good kick in the pants. "I don't know," I complained, rubbing my behind. "It's your crazy dream...You..Oh, anyway, here comes the next chapter. Let's get in it, before the gibberish starts up again." Bo turned away from me and mumbled to himself. "This dream is bizarre enough without all that cryptic mumbo-jumbo!" "That's fine with me," I agreed as we hurried forward to catch the next Chapter. But I couldn't help looking back in amused interest at the two Chapters and all the excess baggage they lugged along. I gave them a half wave. The Chapters winked back at me. I giggled and Bo pulled me into the next one. Table of Contents | Previous Chapter | Next Chapter