I Am What I Am

In the rapture of the leaves...

Piercing the shrouded sky

They fight against surrounding black:

Like flowers breaking through sidewalk cracks,

The light seeps through the darkness.

Between the leaves

The stars reach for the eyes…

 

But now thought reaches away:

I escape myself through abstraction

As the past violently asserts itself:

Remembrance induced by a careless focus

On a memory flowing from a present vision:

The tree

now

Clothed in leaves

Beckons forth remembrance:

Autumn leaves,

Trundling into legs only to move past

As they ride the restless winds

Whispering their own poems

Of meaning only experience could collect…

They rush

Through fallow ditches

And enclosing brush which

Form a pattern around

The tree that beckons forth

- With disrobed branches glistening

White under stars,

Dampened by the still-settling dew-

A Self-realization that obliterates all boundaries

And encompasses no thoughts,

but the One

which gives them:

The One which gives a breath

Held together by the moments

That came before the final puff of white

that joins the airs that wrap themselves

around the tree reaching up to the stars

which do not reflect the one who sees them

but give the light

towards

which

thought

now

reaches.

 

All these memories induce

The longing to feel the openness

No words could possibly describe

As slowly the months fade

Into the dissolving moments it takes

For the eyes to reach up to the light.

Reviews

[Gilad Levanon]

This is beautiful. I love your style, but more importantly, I love what you're talking about. The absence of thought in the realization of the One is a truly deep and liberating realization.

A Self-realization that obliterates all boundaries
And encompasses no thoughts,
but the One

Fantastically, eloquently delivered. Thank you and well done.

[sivan]

This poem is beautiful. Your choice of words and construction thereof is magical... great write. These Lines were great

Remembrance induced by a careless focus

On a memory flowing from a present vision

[...]

A powerful write with strong emotioin, I like this alot!

[Red Raven]

I can feel the strong acceptance in this poem.
Thanks a lot for sharing.