“Mortal”

Just me and the universe?

No more!

Night sky, lights, eye,

The lotus cloud I-

Me and eternity

I no longer care for

My mortality

My story

Not eternal hum

But a single light that comes

And goes

Me and eternity?

I forget that story

I contemplate her mortal face

Is all a brain does

Trying to fathom

What it cannot

Me and eternity?

I don’t care for forever

I embrace my mortality

As if she were a goddess

As if hills

And laughing between

Were the memory

Of an electron

Imagining something

Bigger than itself

Me deep in green thought

Rolling black sky

Rolling out

My life

Into dream

I always talked of dream maya

Like a yogin would

As if to avoid her long hair

But the second I locked eyes

I would have bowed down

Unconditionally

Sitting on my hill

I contemplate

Lines beginning to form

Around a sad smile

A day to rise

A day for setting

A holy mortal mystery

Death and rebirth

I am in love

No neat rhyme

Of bliss on a cloud

Or forever young

Mortal love

Sticks like felt to the soul

Felt on felt

Here come

Here we are made

All of us

You’re all become

Her portrait

I could have stuck together

In kinder

And all these years since

Me and the androgynous universe

Just sit

Contemplate

Contradict –

“Mortal”

And I succumb

To her portrait

Positioned in dreams of eternity