neulichimcafe

In waking hours last sunday night
a lucid moment brought me light:
I found I had been walking blind
and lit a torch in the cave that's my mind.

I saw its ceiling but not its floor,
I looked around in search for more,
then I took the turn to self-denial
and followed this way, which took me a while.

Behind steep inclines and twisted slopes
I discovered the path of dreams and hopes.
Narrow at first, it quickly grew wide -
and then came out on the other side.

I tuned off the torch and looked at the sky,
the endless expanse and the bottomless I.
My lucid moment had almost passed,
I hoped that something, at least, would last.

When morning came it dawned on me,
the first ray of light clearly made me see,
if I understood myself - just a bit -
I'd be blessed with wisdom infinite.

© neulichimcafe, 2009