I. Gray
In the dim light of the dusk
fading through the sky
an exhibit on a canvas:
a single strand of graying hair.
The arcane gallery housed
by the serpentine lake of memories.
What an awful lot of balderdash
shrieks an elderly gentleman ahead.
What a masterpiece, I think.
A masterstroke, in fact: just a strand
stuck like a line across the canvass,
this is it: time is catching up.
mortality comes calling
in pieces and strands.
II. Red
What embers, my dear, lie concealed
beneath those heaps of burned
logs deposited in your soul?
Waters healing were poured out
ages ago: was the love
too diluted, that even now the gale winds
of raging events bring those embers
burning from your depths?
I can see them burning in your eyes.
III. Black
Oh his gulf between you and me.
That you carry what is of me
before and hold what is
after I am of the ashes,
I know, in your oceanic vasts
bloom our fleeting island lives.
But what were you, before
you were of flesh? Did Aleph
bring you forth too? Tell me
friend, for this is my quest,
my mortal angst at finding you
nailed on the cross above: or
I must be a necromonger.
Are you the one who does not exist
as we know, or are you who also exists
as we can know: what are you?
That blood flows on this earth pondering
on this question.
In this is concealed the answer
to the question raised by that strand.
Tav is not the answer. Nor is it in the cross.
Jul 28, 2013
Jul 28, 2013 at 7:09 AM UTC
I. Gray
In the dim light of the dusk
fading through the sky
an exhibit on a canvas:
a single strand of graying hair.
The arcane gallery housed
by the serpentine lake of memories.
What an awful lot of balderdash
shrieks an elderly gentleman ahead.
What a masterpiece, I think.
A masterstroke, in fact: just a strand
stuck like a line across the canvass,
this is it: time is catching up.
mortality comes calling
in pieces and strands.
II. Red
What embers, my dear, lie concealed
beneath those heaps of burned
logs deposited in your soul?
Waters healing were poured out
ages ago: was the love
too diluted, that even now the gale winds
of raging events bring those embers
burning from your depths?
I can see them burning in your eyes.
III. Black
Oh his gulf between you and me.
That you carry what is of me
before and hold what is
after I am of the ashes,
I know, in your oceanic vasts
bloom our fleeting island lives.
But what were you, before
you were of flesh? Did Aleph
bring you forth too? Tell me
friend, for this is my quest,
my mortal angst at finding you
nailed on the cross above: or
I must be a necromonger.
Are you the one who does not exist
as we know, or are you who also exists
as we can know: what are you?
That blood flows on this earth pondering
on this question.
In this is concealed the answer
to the question raised by that strand.
Tav is not the answer. Nor is it in the cross.
Mortality. The gray shades of love. The fluid spirit. This is our lot.
Aleph and Tav are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet
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