the
book of kleshas
5 : Clinging
/ acceptance
can i accept
my final defeat?
can i let go
of everything that is anything?
can i agree
to be less than nothing?
can i embrace
my own annihilation?
they told me
voidness is fullness
and the full is void.
i questioned.
who am i, anyway?
how did i come into being?
where do i go from here,
if after this rich landscape
there is nothing, not even
stars and suns
or faces i have loved
or places i have known
or worlds i have imagined?
how, in the face of
knowing only this,
how do i step into
non-existance?
the stick comes down,
stinging
painful
and the word resounds
all around me.
to this day
i can't repeat it.