Only Knowing

"Only Knowing"

There are moments in my life

where what I see

and what I perceive 

are different,

     it's like seeing 

     the here and now

through a memory,

These feelings 

are the same

and yet

ever so strange,

Just different enough 

to know the difference,

Not quite 

what the moment is saying,

Feels like memory

peeking through,

Leaves one to question

     what is memory

     if not a simulation

          of reality anyway,

Like

The tip of a mountainous iceberg

on top of a summit 

that lies beneath the sea

drifting among the currents

of infinite oceans

around a planet

that is floating 

among

the waves of the cosmos

of swirling stars

and celestial bodies,

Just another sprinkle

among the trillions and trillions

of sparkling grains

glittering

their pale points of light

from just beyond our perception of time,

Inward infinitely

like moments in a dream,

falling from one reality to another,

forever,

never knowing where now is

or when where 

what we see is real,

Only knowing

what we feel;

     Is in the end,

what is reality.

-Armando Torres