The anticipation,
followed by the excitement,
precedes, and enhances
the joy.
Fraught with beauty and intensity
of the mystic,
the revelation of another reality
overwhelms.
The madness recedes,
and the stench of populist bigotry,
of retrogressive tribalism,
slowly fades.
Colours vibrate,
and the spirit, too long fallow,
vibrates with a harmonic intensity
that heals.
The rhythm of breathing
becomes a mantra
to the eternal mandala
that is Now.
