On my way to a path
I was met by a hermit
Accompanied by its music which
Unlike a sculpture nor a painting,
With their mimicking stagnation,
The music flowed through time.
The hermit then asked,
'What is the joy of silence?'
With the cold of that ember evening
I dared not to answer
For in silence, the truth there dwells.
'An admirable integrity!'
The hermit jovially exclaimed
'For the path of nothingness,
after all is reserved for the Will,
the Will to beauty, the Will to be.'
Without a moment to ponder
I thereby entered the void
As the Hermit's music
Went into a glistening crescendo
The void joined along an innuendo
It is fact that with a baby's cry
Along comes with it a signal of life
The void became a myth and a lie
Of the world before I came to be
When I saw my mother's eyes.
2023
A poem heavily inspired by my introductory studies of Schopenhauer: 'The World as Will and Representation'