NOW: THE END OF SUFFERING
by
Jamie Dedes
sighing into a tired heart
he came to kneel that night
by a fire, warming comforts
of a funeral pyre, deathless
with the fragrance of life
·
he leaned his ache into
velvet silence filling the
well-lighted firmament
of his soul, no-mind – just
the lilac scent of grace
·
ferrying the ancient swan*
whose wings carried him
into moon-dust forevers
drunk on the breath of god**
his effulgence makes fast
·
feathers like sails well-set
caught the birthing hum
that so constant essence
gold-rimmed, violet centered
able to spin out immaculate
·
an earthy life, where prayer
and the bridge to freedom
were lost to him, until until
out of the emptiness so pure
the man remembered ~
·
his breath is his prayer
the earth’s children, his faith
his god, the consciousness
that fills an empty house
now: the end of suffering
·
* swan ~ Hamsa (Hindu) identified with the supreme spirit. Its flight symbolizes the escape from the cycle of samsara, the flow of birth, life, death, and rebirth; the continuous flow of consciousness; or, endlessly drifting into worldly passions, desires, and experience.
** god ~ God, being, infinite, nothingness, emptiness, Great Spirit, Allah, Yahway … whatever pointer works for you.
© poem, 2012 Jamie Dedes All rights reserved
Photo credit ~ Nat Sakunworarat, Public Domain Pictures.Net
This is what I anticipate…remembering.
“…until until
out of the emptiness so pure
the man remembered ~”
Tickling the underside of my soul again, Jamie.
I love “he leaned his ache into velvet silence”…I could just feel the sigh of comfort in this…just beautiful, Jamie.
Very moving..and beautiful… loved reading it…and what it conveys.. RS:)
How very lovely this is.