By Gillian Schutte
01 Dec, 2023
Poem for Kai
My beloved son
I have lost you
to the void
and in that void
I have found
unspeakable
treasures
Immeasurable
solace
your departure
though veiled
In sorrow
gifted me
Transcendence
I have swum with you
in that boundless
nothingness
untethered
by time
in this undone tapestry
illusions that once
stitched my mind
unravel endlessly
unveiling the
unknowable
beyond
far beyond
temporal recitals
of birth and death
and this and that
and endless warring
I now know
no beginning
endpoints are
but fleeting notions
scribbled from the cage
of conditioned minds
time
a whisper
space
limitless
you, my sweet boy
kissed my forehead
while scales fell from
tear drenched eyes
and I beheld
this vast unmanifest
this boundless sea
of light
where birth and death are
but ephemeral strokes
on the blank page
of our eternal
journey
an
endlessly
murmured
mantra
to everything
to nothing
that absence
is not
a void
but an invisible
sailcloth painted
with the hues
of
unconditioned
unbound
fathomless
Love
Alice In Her Own Land 