The clouds painted with hints of heaven
cast deep, sinister shadows on the beating surf below, slapping at the rocks
with the aquatic wrath of a god. The soft arms of nirvana, where glinting gates
of gold peep out, allow the Sky god to offer himself as a host, and to dramatize
the celestial love from above. The ridges of the nebulae turn from blue to pink
as the Sun closes her weary eyes and drifts along to the edge of darkness,
shepherding oranges and reds into her sacred field of sleep.
As
my dark pools are torn from the fantastic realm above, I see fields of rusted
fronds fluttering in the wind. Strands of cobwebbed hair determined to distract
my vision cannot mar this delight: the
silver spray from the waves; the pink bonfire of beaming divinity; the teasing light
from across the bay. The latter entices my interests with its bitter brightness
– a sparkling jewel amongst the lurid colours of sunset. My heart urges me to edge
nearer to this furtive radiance and so my legs amble over rocks encrusted with
crackling salt crystals, and spiked grasses bleached blue by the Earth’s malice,
until the night engulfs my clouded mind and the swirls hanging above.
Chills lace my body as dribbles of icy
water seep into my sink; the light draws me closer still. I find myself at the end
of the shore.
Before me – nothing but the dark perils of
a wintry sea, behind me – the echoes of rusted tufts of deathly shrubs, melting
and fragmenting into the curling wind. Below, the hungry waves kiss my feet,
waiting for the final plunge; above, the light screams for me, bellowing my
name.
The yellow glare penetrates my shivering
bones, extracting my soul, my will. So brilliant, so intense – I must join you
at the core. My essence, slipped from my hollow shell skips from the shore onto
each swirling wave, like the gold flecks from the fountain above, dancing in
the bubbling sea.
*
Closer
and closer our hearts collide. I release a howl, you discharge a sigh. The rain
ceases; the wind croaks; our spirit surges; we are one.
Copyright © JRFB 2012
