Into the Dravidian's Eye
Wednesday, 19. November 2008, 06:31:40
Written the night before last, in between fever and coughing fits.
Into the Dravidian's Eye
I want to lie in a different warmth than this.
Not this, this rips you off your soul,
this kills and leaves destitute, so in the end you hold
not a mind to wonder or dream or seek or sense,
but a bare feeling of an eye that will only see and not realize.
There’s music, somewhere far,
somewhere where the night is its busied city lights.
And here, a blue wind, and its own serene song.
But all this, this blue, this difference in
the blue of metal and the blue of night,
all this falls too small, too small for what I see.
Smaller yet, is my being:
helplessly buried in the warmth of livid flesh,
as though the heights of my own self have
fallen too low before my own eminence.
Tonight I could have no other organs, none but eyes--
eyes that breathe and are pregnant with sighs
in the candid air and the music of the night.
Let Orpheus play for life of Eurydice,
while I pluck this eye from my palm
and place it in the quiet and warm of the bed.
Here its stare is stilled. All else around is a lie.
And stilled too-- the stare from far off behind
the forest of eyes, and shadows, and blurred bloodlines,
he who is not so blue in his gaze but dark,
a dark endless shape, where none of us can find
the frame, the focus, nor a figure of sorts—
just the unfailing force and freedom
to birth a thousand eyes, to lock in this gaze,
me and him, and those who’ve been between.
This flows timeless as of now.
The cry of a crow that has no sleep
doesn’t tear into the mind and rebuke.
My stare sojourns around and passes by
other unseeing stares. This doesn’t hold,
does not withdraw, just enter the space
of countless countenances.
Just as you could see an eye inside of an eye
and flow lost in the endless windows inside,
so is his eye on mine- dead and alive
at the same infinitesimal time,
when you enter his world of eyes –
blacks in whites in a tireless rhyme.
- Symphony
November 18, 'o8
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