Life drags over the weight of a spine

Breaths quicken as the legs numb

You see how ordinary your life has become

Ordinary shelves on ordinary tables

Ordinary roof on an ordinary house

Ordinary person in an ordinary mirror

Ordinary soul in an ordinary body

You look at yourself

You think I am ordinary

But what is this bridge to the extraordinary?

Find a voice behind that sings its song:

Find the ordinary behind and the extraordinary beyond

Find what stands between you and extraordinary

Find the obstacle that keeps you ordinary

You follow the light

Beyond the thin walls

You follow the voice as your senses fall

See the blue sky above

See speckled green grass

See towers touch clouds

See the air between lives

You trail on with the voice

Hear as it sings

Guides you through the world in spring

Taste the chemical air

Taste pinewood and sea

Taste maple and evergreen

Taste desert and sun

Surely, you think

This is past the ordinary

But was is it that makes it extraordinary?

Hear the blast of each horn

Hear cars on paved roads

Hear countries and cultures

Hear wind carry the earth

This, you think

Is beyond the ordinary

But how shall I cross my path to extraordinary?

Smell the roses in bloom

Smell the sting of each hive

Smell the oil and clouds

Smell the canvas of meadow

There’s a key, speaks the voice

A key to the best

Beyond reach of the beating heart in each chest

Feel the grass at your feet

Feel the hand in each hand

Feel the sun stain your face

Feel yourself follow

Show me, you think

Let me open the door 

The lock to unravel, let me be more

Follow me, says the voice

Follow past pavement and dirt

Follow past gravel and seas

Follow past faces below, above, and beyond

You obey without thought

But the light pauses, replies

You are almost there, but you must close your eyes

Close your eyes, it repeats

Close your senses and sight

Close your eyes as an ordinary

Close to open and be extraordinary

Your lids shut tight

It grabs your fingers like a hand

Doubt creeps for you cannot understand

Nothing will you find?

Nothing in this life

Nothing to your control

Nothing you can chamber

You hear a door creak

Your limbs come to a stop

You hear your breaths drop

Open your eyes

Open, says the light

Open them ordinary

Open and see the extraordinary

Your lips quake at the sight

Seeing your lamp, your house, your shelf

For you find you are looking at yourself