Friday, January 22, 2021

Exeunt Victima

“God is too much in love to explain.” — Saint Theresa of Avila


There is light
    and there is mind,
The boundaryless breath
    and the sound,
And if they seem
    so much the same
                                      indeed they are.

There is no stillness
    not a kiss,
No silence
    lacking love,
Nothing needed
    and withheld
                                       that’s not a gift.

Yet you wear a grief
    like a shroud
So no one sees that you are weeping,
For tears must have
a reason, to vindicate your feelings.

Can you hear the screams without pain? It's up to you, the world's perfection. Sensations go through the skies     and come inside the windows.                                       You alone decide.