Thursday 18 September 2008 photo 6/10
|
Juris Konbergs
A STRANGE EVENT
That day the sun set awkwardly
as darkness and fears gathered
Heaven's ladder loosened and swayed
and he didn't know if he was climbing up or down
He was in a dark congealing tunnel
In a room that was no room
Was he breathing or just remembering
what the motions of breathing had been?
In the struggle for him
he participated by non-participation
and so was, to an even greater extent,
a part of the event
And light peeled away like flaking wallpaper from
its designated wall that held bundles of insights
And darkness rose like a thermometer's
mercury in the summer sun
Out of the darkness a glister of light
He was weak and stretched for it
But darkness pressed him back
And light cried abandoned, despondent
And light cried with the voice of a child
A STRANGE EVENT
That day the sun set awkwardly
as darkness and fears gathered
Heaven's ladder loosened and swayed
and he didn't know if he was climbing up or down
He was in a dark congealing tunnel
In a room that was no room
Was he breathing or just remembering
what the motions of breathing had been?
In the struggle for him
he participated by non-participation
and so was, to an even greater extent,
a part of the event
And light peeled away like flaking wallpaper from
its designated wall that held bundles of insights
And darkness rose like a thermometer's
mercury in the summer sun
Out of the darkness a glister of light
He was weak and stretched for it
But darkness pressed him back
And light cried abandoned, despondent
And light cried with the voice of a child
2 comments on this photo
Directlink:
http://dayviews.com/mogitbit/268326834/