A Whisper, From a Mother I did not expect the night to feel like this.So cold.So quiet. As if the world had stopped breathingthe moment my body betrayed me. The wind moves through the trees above me,And their branches bend and sway,Like they know somethingI am afraid to say aloud. I stand alone,looking up at […]
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The Road Within Some journeys happen without moving feet,Like incense climbing while the shrine stands still;The lamp travels far where shadows meet,By holding flame, obedient to will. The mind begins its road when noise grows thin,It walks through thought the way night walks through breath;Old walls dissolve, new inner skies begin,And habits loosen their long
hope Hope is an oil lamp cupped in wavering palms,Its wick steady though the monsoon tests the flame.It calls like a cuckoo in rain-dark fields,Singing without waiting for the moon. It moves ahead like jasmine before the flower opens,Trusting fragrance long before the white appears.When time pauses between one breath and the next,And the world
The Prayer of Waiting I no longer run after the sky’s retreating hem,I wait like a stone step cooled by evening feet.The land cups a lamp as dusk leans down to pray,And the horizon returns barefoot, scented with rain.
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The Guarded Flame I hold my silence like a guarded flame against the storm,Wordless in breath, yet burning softly with truth.It leads me like a river through moonless night,Showing my steps what my tongue cannot say.
Keep Moving I carry my destination like a lamp in my chest,Its small flame knows the road better than my eyes.Dogs bark along the way, sharp as stones on tin roofs,Their noise rising like dust behind my heels. If I turn back to throw words like pebbles,My footsteps scatter like frightened birds.So I walk on,
The House Without Doors I step into a house with no doors,like dusk slipping into light.A silence sits beside me,steady as a lamp in wind.It walks with my life like a shadow that never frightens,And stays the way a river remembers its bank, even in flood.Only then do I learn its name: friendship.
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