Farewell Sickness
You left me!
Invaluable was the darkness cherished
the beloved heart
body, mind
and half of my age
all of it
devoted to your love only
and secretly
You crowned me to your queen of darkness
I grew up slowly in our palace
where
I could hide
and
Stay
if I wanted to
always with you
Our home
the holy eidolon
…
but a shelter for me
as long as you were there
There
was where
we honored shadows
by becoming shadows
The Black Mountain
of your teaching
was made of the absolute
Color of our eternal love
but Love
You forgot one thing
or didn't you know me well?
Dedicated by desire
I climbed that mountain
Kept my promise
To see the irrefutable
To be the unconditional
No
You weren't there
You haven't made it that far?
or was your share to have me ebb
There was Black
as absolute as you said
Stroke my face apart
and I fell
at once for another
at an opposite end
One I became
with the luminous cilia
of a man
a plain man
made of brightest light
All of a sudden he came
All of a sudden he left
Seeing all of me was possessed
That loss slowly turned me to a sheer pain
covering my home
with an opposite color of white
I got petrified
by an equal fever to your love
and
A battlefield were my heart
lodging the war of the tantamount
of identical charge
repulsion of the supreme
dematerialized matter
cracked the eye
and I died
Colors of all wavelengths
between black and white
fill that deserted heart now
Yet there is a new spirit
sleeping inside
Soon she will wake up
and sing
an ancient lullaby
of life
not remembering
but with a knowing:
*I am of dark and of light
not necessarily of good or of bad
whatever you make me
I will be
which matches to which
by any color of absolute
you’ll be bewitched
but virtuous
make a difference
by your poetry
let me be your
one magic word
until truth is met
in heavens
Title is inspired by Man Ray's 'Noire et Blanche' (1926) . I tried to remake a picture for a photo contest recently and that effort also produced this poem :)