Meditating on fire For eternity it seemed I was transported to the other realm It had the quality of lucid dream An elephant fluttered up to my side Projecting her soul in to my own She winked cheekily and disappeared For her touch I felt that I had grown Peering up in to the sky A dome of interlocking flowers They surged with colour bright I could have stared at it for hours All at once the vision left I was drifted back to Earth But I donβt feel at all bereft Iβve had another birth