At the Zenith of My Life
When towards the end
The darkness besets me
Darkness unlike another
The life giving womb
Reminds me
Light is a blinding madness
The visible hues of
A spectrum beyond
Reckoning,
And escape beckoning,
I am my mirror now
Knowledge reflecting,
From every pore
From every wrinkle
The crows feet, the laughter lines,
Each varicose vein
Each mark of pain
Is knowledge,
That sets me free.
It senses another light beckoning
Across these higher levels of darkness
I kiss the nadir of earthly dreams
Touch the feet of life with love
To say adios with gratitude
A somber delight
A lightness earned
I now reach for its zenith.
In the cries of
The gathering bereaved at departure of dear loved dream
For that's what those days now seem
Of empty yearnings and swift unraveling
I am alive in each lively spark
That tosses my shell to cinders
Inside innocent lovers in the park....
For one may surely die
But none may tear
sweet joy asunder.
As at a multiplex
Different dramas, comedies and satires play
In mine
at curtain call
I receive funeral wreaths
Stiff as a board
And scent succulent flavors of the barbeque next door...
Party on
Tonight I'm gone
Unconscious commemoration
Of life's gleeful song.
The universe offering alms
Sorrows expirations on death day
And it's sensors
Peak almost
on the tip of my tongue
A frozen shower of ice cream cones thaw in warm palms...
Say adios to fleshy
Exultation. ..
Remembrance is fragile joy
Hold it lightly, a toy
Powered by whims,
New stories start every day
And the child in us must be forever gay....
As my tears dissolve in the sea of lives
Nothing melts me
Misty eyes I see you
And again I will see through you
nothing is ever over
finality is cyclic.
I will include all of you again
Who are
Present at this mourning.
I will be again.
I'm upon mountain peaks of peace snowboarding through glacial valleys that lead
Through this mysterious wormhole which brought me in
And will wash me out gurgling
Gruesome note
Grief integral
To Life's
Orchestral symphony.
Like tumbling waterfalls
Crystal foams
I bubble forth my eternity
flecky songs evanescent soap suds
In temporal phases.
The breathtaking beauty bursting upon
One feeble breath and then it's gone
Without alas alack or sense of loss
Beauty
Spinning a crazy coin
For a moments delightful toss...
up in the air.
Believe me that body was encumbrance armor donned
in battle, diving gear to sustain unnatural breath
If you are looking for the light
Rejoice like children ...
Clap and sound applause!
I've escaped the smothering gravitational mothering
I'm in forever's empty embrace
I'm in breathtaking free falling flight...tunneling through new visions of chilling grace and space.
Amrita Valan 2015
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