Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Wrinkled barrens


When i ran 
to you
it started to rain

now

when i walked
from you
i started to cry


When i rained tears
through wrinkled barrens
salty rivers meandered

as

When i wept ice flakes
flows of glaze on dried lands
slowly submerged my tear


When i drowned

in you


like         


una lamentación 

oye, how i wailed, oye


si


When i miscarried

in me


Oye, todo sobre mi muerte






© 2020-10-28





Saturday, 24 October 2020

Know the Now

 

Love

*

Now that you are 

finally

here in the know

*

You

*

Know that you are

finally

here in the now

*

Love



© 2020-10-21

I Am Only Love Now

 *

Only Now I Am Love

*

I left all knowledge

to a past

not to be remembered

*

I referred all pain

to a future

never to be reached

*

I have no use for either

in a present

Since I am in a now

forever with you

*

Love I Am Only Now

*

Serene - perfectly calm

Silent - no need to speak

At peace - no want to hate

Distant - no reason to engage

Close - to myself and the Eternal

Care - for who bestow mercy and bliss

Compassion - for the innocent and seekers

Joy - and even that has become unnecessary

*

Now I Am Only Love

*




  © 2020-10-24





Tuesday, 13 October 2020

Is your thirst big enough....


Something cryptic

that is just

amongst mystics


Between skeptics

be careful my friend

what you wish for


Suppose you're granted

the craved knowledge 

you so badly want


And in return have to live

those thousand dire lives after

that one life in the know


Maybe then you'll scream

every other lifetime as I did

when my brain opened up


Why, why was I gifted

with all knowledge 

and not fully free to use 



© 2020-10-13




Monday, 12 October 2020

Somewhere between Shams and Rumi


On Hassan's quote


You caressed me  

with ease from hardship

as I'd lapsed into anger

in a rage, in a storm of fury 

arisen out of love

Out of hurt that love was

rejected or ne'er sought

by souls that were not

and claimed still

forgiveness for atrocities

and none for others.

The non-souls

slaying prophets

stoning messengers

scourging redeemers

for they hate

what they don't understand

as they expel 

love for they do not have.

You hit me, indeed

there is ease with hardship

you reproached me with love

and so I bowed and embraced it


Again.


© 2020-10-12