Thursday 27 September 2012

The Alchemy of Becoming: Air

I put my fingers on the sun 
And let it rise in my heart
I step on the ocean's chest
and spread it wide beneath my feet
I paint a roof with strokes of clouds, above my head
I hang the moon in my window
And light the stars in it's panes

I drizzle with the rain
burst and shower in a million drops
Sinking in the mud
Rising another day, in a cloud

I spread my arms
from north to south
And paint a rainbow that flows, 
the colors, red and greens...
rising from a place of no beginning
touching, the land with no end

I stand against the wind
And let it pass through my soul
I let it carry me around 
and spin like an autumn leaf

I may have no name
I may wear no face...
but everywhere, I'll live
Anywhere, I may sleep

I am dust, I am water, 
I am fire, I am air




Monday 3 September 2012

The Alchemy of Becoming: Dust


I have all religions, and I have none
I am a million souls, but I am no one



I took a stroll down the lane, I found the trees tall and green... but Silent. I looked at the sky to praise the Mighty artist's canvass and found it starless, cloudless, moonless... The houses stood grived, stoned. The Wind brought no scent, no whisper, no chuckle, no footsteps heard, no roaring engines set the sleeping ground trembling... The world stood before me... Silent. No faces, no voices... I looked from one corner of the world to the other and found it flat, plain, unobstructed... uninhabited.   

It took not the mothers to die
Neither the fathers to kill
Nor the ground to shake 
The stars to break
Or the oceans to roar and spread

It wasn't the wind shrieking and uprooting
It wasn't the storms slitting the sky open
It was not the thunder that yelled and pounced
It wasn't the streams of fire, spilled
It was but a silence
And not a single soul survived....!

I never realized how huge the world is, until it was empty. Untill it was lifeless. Untill the dusk and dawn was one. I exist alone, in the wide spread of nothingness. In it, I live. It is what accompanies me and goes with me where ever I go... where ever I go.... it is there before me and it is there with me. 


I cut the sun in two,
Slipping down, the evening went, hollow
I shattered the moon’s empty case,
Rolling went the night, hollow
It rained desert, poured sand
And the ocean’s chest, hollow
I walked through the tunnels of wind
The seasons passed, hollow
My shouts hit the barren sky,
My voice echoed, hollow
my thoughts blank, my vision blank, 
my soul, my heart, hollow.  


I stand alone and the world lays before me, flattened, widespread north to south, east to west, end to end. No one I  know, ever existed. No one I knew, exists.