Piercing the shrouded sky They fight against surrounding black: Like flowers breaking through sidewalk cracks, The light seeps through the darkness. Between the leaves The stars reach for the eyesβ¦
But now thought reaches away: I escape myself through abstraction As the past violently asserts itself: Remembrance induced by a careless focus On a memory flowing from a present vision: The tree now Clothed in leaves Beckons forth remembrance:
Autumn leaves, Trundling into legs only to move past As they ride the restless winds Whispering their own poems Of meaning only experience could collect⦠They rush Through fallow ditches And enclosing brush which Form a pattern around The tree that beckons forth - With disrobed branches glistening White under stars, Dampened by the still-settling dew- A Self-realization that obliterates all boundaries And encompasses no thoughts, but the One which gives them: The One which gives a breath Held together by the moments Which trail the first puff of white that joins the airs that wrap themselves around the tree reaching up to the stars which do not reflect the one who sees them but give the light towards which thought now reaches.
All these memories induce The longing to feel the openness No words could possibly posses As slowly the months fade Into the dissolving moments it takes For the eyes to reach up to the light.