(2013)
1998.... while touring india.... exploring the town of rishikesh a popular hindu pilgrimage site along the banks of the holy mother…
Water ever seeks it’s perfect peace, from mountain heights to scattered oceans deep. So too our spirit follows
Oh, knower of my heart, this trembling voice cries out in words that cannot begin to tell how deep my longing is for thee.
I read such woeful words penned by a fallen brother; his message cut me deeply. He prayed to all that’s holy that he might cry again.
These words, are just what they’re meant to be; for you, whatever needs they serve to stir… For me;
My beloved, she has abandoned me. What’s left is a stark white canva… that repels application of hue or… Hopelessly, I gaze into the bleak… She is gone,
How are you? The maiden turned and whispered soft, her turquoise eyes as deep as time.
Listen. There it is. The hum of perfect silence at the centre of all that is, and isn’t.
I was surrounded by many desperate, troubled people. There was much drinking, drugging, and violence. Women were being bought and sold,
I humbly bow before your tender me… for no other reason than I’m sorry… As I listen to my old pal, Leonar… crooning out his holy tunes, there’s a message sounding clear
The old man, who thinks he’s dying, approached me with these words. I am sorry
My father is dead, still he speaks through me; “Don’t say anything....OR ELSE!… There was plenty of “OR ELSE!” to go around.
The essence of night is her infinite darkness, that cannot be measured by space or in time. She’s as large or as small
I am awash with tears of mourning for what I thought was dead and go… as though a flood of holy water has broken through the stony dam I contrived to spare this brittle…
This trembling grief is for a long lost soul, a young, guileless child I once knew as me. I truly believed