Running Out of Time
Leigh A. Schmidt
Phillip Hey Phillip Hold up Phillip wait It is me Lucy
Lucy Oh my God Lucy is that you
Phew stop moving away please Phillip You can stop now I am out of the wind catching up to you No one else I have followed has moved so far so quickly Phillip
You’ve been following me Seems like I have been running on a long time I feel out of wind too Jeeze Lucy I thought I heard you passed A while ago Lucy It has been so long Two three months ago maybe So where are we now
Yes well
Glad to know it is not true You caught up to me here Where exactly are we I am not sure I have ever been to this strange place before The darkness is weird Do you know where we are Lucy
Phillip I do
But you know it is actually good to see you again See uhm Wait see what Is it this darkness I am having difficulty seeing
Phillip yes see again Take a moment look around here Use your feelings Use what senses you have
Yes So what am I seeing exactly What is this place
Take your time Adjust You just stopped moving away It is all very new Strange is it not
More than that confusing actually How is it here How did we come to this place Exactly where are we Lucy
Phillip hon it is all so new you have just stopped moving away See the reality Look beyond where you are
I am really confused How Where I don’t recognize But your voice calling out to me The sound of your Can I even
See Yes Hear Yes You need to pause a moment Phillip Process
What is all this Darkness There There is nothing more than Darkness You The sound of your voice Wait Where
Here hon Right here Phillip I am
I cannot Lucy I hear you For some reason I cannot
You can you are just beginning to
No This is crazy There is nothing Lucy Nothing Nada Where is this Lucy Where are we You
You have been moving away so rapidly
Running yes Away
No Moving I have stopped you caught up You have been moving away so quickly Such a great distance quickly Look around now process
Where have you been Lucy Me In all of this Just darkness Me Where am I What am What have I become Lucy
Yes You are sensing again You are different from you before Becoming now
Lucy You I cannot see Thought you gone but here Me I am here in this darkness Where there is only
Confusion That will clear soon Phillip Soon with becoming
Becoming Lucy My body Your body I cannot
Yes Phillip You are seeing again sensing Becoming
But my legs am I without legs arms No body I see at all What have I become What am I Lucy Is this not here Nothing You Am I imagining I hear but
Becoming soon Trust Philip Become
Without Even without Where is my body Lucy
Becoming Sensing Recognize Phillip
What becoming Here Aware Do I even But you are here Lucy You here with Where
I hear your voice Know your voice I cannot see you either Lucy How is this happening
You I am here With you Phillip Before you to catch up to you Phillip Bring you along Understand Phillip
Lucy I can’t Where is it you are Lucy Invisible But not hiding
Yes Phillip We are You still becoming
What There is confusion Lucy I need understanding
You need nothing You are becoming
Becoming what Where Transforming Am I
Yes Transformed
Transformed Into what When
No Now becoming Soon not to have me Once you have become
Become what Lucy Aware Look Lucy my hands Where are my hands My arms feet How can I travel here Where is here I am seeing darkness Lucy Spots of
Light Yes Phillip It is you Transforming Becoming aware Phillip
I am
Yes Phillip You are Say it Say it out loud Say it Call it out to creation You Phillip are sensing becoming Call it out to all of creation
Creation where Surrounding us
Yes Phillip you are becoming. Call it out to creation now
What Lucy Some empty form without arms legs body Do I even have my head about me A formless form calling out to the darkness
Yes Phillip A new form Transformed Transitioned Becoming Aware Phillip
In name only Lucy
Yes Phillip What thought was it you remember of the past you move away from
I do remember You Lucy Before me Now
After you now Phillip We are both here Now I have become before you Do you recognize yet Phillip
Yes maybe Lucy Becoming now here Aware in this darkness I am new spirit Lucy Hear me Universe I am new spirit I am aware now
No attachment to before You see
I am Lucy Aware now I have become
No attachment to before to me to you You are Phillip A guide am I Lucy To bring you awareness This blessing of renewal Phillip you are
I am but Phillip
Still Phillip yes No need to move away Unless you desire
I am become
Yes Phillip And I Lucy
Yes Aware and become
Yes Phillip
I am Phillip
Yes Phillip Yes Free
Then Lucy I do not see you I do not hear you Do I
No You are of the spirit now I have been also Phillip
So I process as spirit without sight without sound without touch We communicate
As the Universe without distraction but feeling knowing
Yet I can move
With the Universe but free
Freely Lucy
Yes Phillip you have become fully aware now Phillip
Then my being has freedom to choose to be
I have chosen guidance Phillip Freely
You will leave me now then Lucy Freely
I will Phillip You have become Philip
I am Spirit now Then fare you well Lucy
And you also Phillip Enjoy your way
I shall Lucy I shall renew freely
Leigh A. Schmidt
A seventy-nine year old man leaving the world of being owned for becoming free. A few college degrees, teaching, entrepreneur creating a mid-west winery in the past. Now celebrating the freedom he’s learn by keeping ahead of the effects of old age. So now he writes.