The definition of nothing
Comes in the night time,
In the stillness and
In the silence and
In the dark.
The definition of nothing
Comes in sickness,
When the sense of myself
Is so stark.
The definition of nothing
Comes in the face of death,
When the joy
In that nothingness
I must mark.
2016.04.08.0354 ©
The idea of Sabbath
Dawns slowly;
No matter
How much I
Formalize the turn
From
The intention
Of me and
The purgation
Of you,
The game of love
I learn;
To yearn for
The play of God.
2016.03.05.0432 ©
The sound of silence
Is all that I really need,
But I am hooked on
Belonging to today,
Where I listen to the voices of
So many talking and
I think that I have something
To say to the silence
That would pray by itself
In its own inimitable way.
2012.02.24.1429 ©
You want too much of me,
I am sorry,
It is my fault,
I feel myself
Too much who I am;
Than rather some part
I have built for an offering
To a sham of
An I am who am.
2016.01.21.1216 ©
The business of dying is
Finding out who I am
Finding in who I am
Finding everything that is
Not who I am and then
Naming it as sin.
Can I handle all that stillness?
Can I give up all that spin?
Yes, that will be the marker
Whether I lose or whether I win.
2016.01.08.2017 ©
Tell me that life is not beautiful and
I will bid you farewell, because
You have no idea of heaven or
The heights from which man fell.
I do not expect to hear a whistle or
A symphony or a bell, but
It must all be music to my ears because
There is forever silence in hell.
While, strange is the mixture,
In our waking hours,
Each one to the other
We tell.
2016.01.05.1838 ©
All young years seem to begin
With celebration and
With hope for
The new cycle,
The new light;
But they must all find
Their own Yom Kippur,
Their own prayer in the dark,
Their own atonement day;
For we do not simply go forward
Into the light; Rather
We learn better
To live with the darkness
In our midst.
2016.01.03.0624 ©