Good morning!!!
How are you?

I do not know
Yet.
It takes awhile for consciousness
To return
To the body,
To return
From other lives lived
In other dimensions
Elsewhere,
Where it has been
Romping and playing
And dancing
Through the night.

To return
Reluctantly
From magical realms,
And somber dreams
Extravagent,
To a here-‘n-now
More mundane
With endless details
Of unfinished business,
And incomplete doings,
Of the day.

It takes some time
To feel oneself
Back here,
To check out the limbs
Of earthly life,
To feels one’s
Present presence
Ones aches
Ones pains
Perennial
Ones hopes
Ones aspirations
Ones expectations
And memos
And FYIs.

It takes awhile.

So…
Good morning,
How are you?.
You inquire
Ever-so politely,
Caringly,
Sweetly.
And in truth,
I must say,
“Thank you,
But
I’ll let you know,
When…
I do.