How farther from the Kingdom can You be, <br />My Father? <br />If we greet on one level when we meet...AGAIN! <br />I'm told that YOUR glow is tremendously bright, <br />Yet soft and exciting! <br />How will I know <br />Its the 'Me' You're inviting? <br />If Your radiance blinds my sight. <br />How will I know it is You that bestows it? <br /> <br />'Look around, son! <br />Do you recognize anything here that looks familiar? <br />Other than family, friends and their happy glowing faces? <br />Anything at all. <br />Okay...time's up! ' <br /> <br />Father! It's too magnificent! <br />I couldn't... <br />It wouldn't be fair to waste time like that! <br /> <br />'And since you have none of it left... <br />This my son, <br />Is Kingdom Come! ...and, (He's going to survive?) <br />And...er...and, uh...Let it be known I have spoken! ' <br /> <br />He shakes me up with this stuff! <br />From faith to dream in illusions. <br />Delusional sometimes I get... <br />When I first wake up, <br />From a deep sleep into I drifted!<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/into-i-drifted/