By Bro. Ben Williams
It’s simple – but inexpressible
Chambered in the systole
Yet fills the heavens
And settles my soul
I see it in your eyes
When the moonlight breaks the clouds
An opalescent circle
Through the avenues of smoke
Rising, upward tides
And pulling inward notes
Of long-forgotten silence
The silent music
Shining in the void
Even emptiness has a curtain
Where the eternal overflows.
And here we sit in silence
Whisper where it goes
The body is our instrument
To resonate the distance
And make the open closed.
It wakens in Spring blossoms
And fills the worlds with snows
Every moment lasts forever
With the passing of shadows.
Every darkness is revealed -
It is a good, clear vision
Nothing is left -
Nothing remains hidden
When I lift your veil
My hands play your cello
And sweet music is birthed in silence
In silence is the greatest possibility
For the utterance to be heard
And I hear it all so clearly
Underneath your words
Where truth is shaped in newness
And repeated a million ways
Here beneath the stardust
And the parting of the waves.
And so I swim your ocean
Where the moonlight shifts and breaks
I hold you in my hand
So my heart speaks
To rhyme with endless blessings
Silence between the beats
As wave on wave drowns me
Buoyantly
Adrift upon your surface
Pulled down underneath
Disintegrated by the sands
Pinched between the hemispheres
Where the two bulbs touch
Where all time meets
It’s the end of everything
Because eternity is endlessness
And the endless loves so much.