Divine Essence
by Sean Richard Deardorff

Divine Essence surrounds through 
the smell 
of jasmine and 
sweet salvation. 


Lie down. 
Feel tears drown you in 
joy; for, 
all of glory 
and harmony is upon you in 
a transparent array of 
every white color 
under the sun and 
inside the rainbow whose 
smile is casually uprooted as though 
our eyes had forgotten 
that rain is really God\'s way 
of washing us all clean. 


Rainbows are really smiling. 


So is God. 


Divine Essence is sounding 
sweet music 
as though 
it were bearing witness 
to the birth of Christ. 


Love is crawling 
all around us 
through the ground and 
into our roots, 
into our souls, 
through our toes while 
sliding 
up our leg hairs 
straight 
into our spine 
where 
it disperses about to 
fill our heart, 
our bones, and 
all of our mind. 


Divine essence is 
the feeling of 
living life 
through Love. 


But, 
Divine Essence on the tongue 
tastes like nothing. 
It is unspeakable, 
barely worthy of writing; for, 
all attempts fall far short. 
In short, 
you need to be it; for, 
no man 
can ever speak of it.