Part Two

Yes, I saw them...

Their faces softly framed by the overhead Tiffany lamp; two of a kind but so the same. The woman on the right was much older, the other on the left, much younger....a younger version. Daughter.

Now, every once n a while I ask the ether to send me a gift. A magic moment to inspire me, to fill me, to envelope my hapless spirit with a phosphorescent hope that all is not a parcel of strife with the world.

That in spite of the hallow of distant wars, the morbid tastelessness of poverty, the perverse inhumanity of those who corrupt both in deeds and words, and the apathy of those who walk in the airs of wealth, there indeed is heaven in the gap, that space between people filled with all the best of things. A space where the sublimest of all the world's understanding can be found...real and not merely a manner of polite scholarly thought.

My eyes were transfixed. There was something so magnetic about the scene playing before me, a White Rabbit pull. In the reel of a moment, I became Alice, hypnotically drawn into the magic wonderland of these two fairy goddesses sitting so close to each other, whispering, giggling at some clandestine joke shared between them.

I saw their eyes as they gazed upon each other. So pure. And when the fairy mother gently brushed off a misplaced strand of her daughter's hair, there was a prayer of sacredness in the act.

And slowly I watched how their fingers instinctively entwined, and how at that pivotal moment they slowly eased each other's head to gently rest side by side, like two inseparable soul mates who had flown thirteen spans of a lifetime to another...

I had never never ever witnessed such devoted poignant intimate connection between mother and daughter. The world was nowhere. It was not west, or east, or south or north. It was not even Earth.

And in the pin of my tear and the thug of my heart, there was and is no physical world to speak of...I realized. Only moments...gaps of heaven between people....

But not everyone can see...

So I sat there in my space, soaking in their love; speechless in my silence....watching..watching..as life unfolds a movie..just for me.