DEATH

Death
  Is a Knot
  Undoubtedly Mysterious
  Perhaps Unfathomable
  In the Fabric of Life

Death
  Is  a Gaze
  Abandoning the Road Ahead
  For the Infinite Expanse on the Sides
  Of little Design But rich In Form

Death
  Is a Moment
  Of Absent-Mindedness
  Taking a Leap
  Into Eternity

Death
  Is a Mirage Of Finality
  In the Torrid Complexity
  Of What is the Complete Truth
  Perhaps Only a Mirage

Death
  A Knot In the Fabric
  A Farewell to  Design
  A Moment Of Eternity
  A Mirage in the Truth
 

PEACE

There is a point

To the left of that point is a room
In a red-brick apartment complex
With a quiet place to sit

To the right of that point
Is a 7-story building containing a room
Looking out to the ocean

Above that point
By the ocean is a tree
Under the tree a bench

Below that point
Sitting  on the bench is a peaceful man
Looking at the water
 

That point  is a  Place
where Silence Is  Substance
and Peace is the Universe.
 
 
 

ROCKING CHAIRS.

When the unknown mists of the future
stand as distant as the mists
in a giant painting from a nameless painter

When the routines from the past
evaporate without  leaving a single trace

 When the present
resisting all pushes from the past
and all pulls from the future
freezes in contemplation of its perfect mystery
 

And a thousand stars dim themselves
To a perfect darkness
leaving a pitch-black sky,
Cloudless
And shining darkly
Against the invisible City Lights

While the Soul
Stands like a  black filamentous figure
On a dark globe
defining itself for no reason
Against  the pitch-black sky

Then the Universe
And a Lone Shadow
Sit back on two Rocking chairs
by a fire-place
And watch each other
With a knowing smile

 
FISH OF STEEL
 

Three men in warrior garb of some kind
stuck in a room
Inside a big wealthy palace guarded by enemies
They have to escape quietly

One of them goes out
and disappears
not to be seen again

Two are left
They get out of the room
They lose each other

One of them shoots a gun in the air
and runs away behind a door,
against all odds
escaping notice of a nearby guard
despite the gunshot !

Comes the final reckoning
One muscular man,
probably one of the first three,
dressed in a scanty warrior-like outfit
challenges another similar creature
and declares his will to terminate the opponent

He throws into the air
a weapon with a pointed spear at each end
It seems that the weapon comes back to pierce
someone,
who could be either the thrower or the target

The victim settles into being the thrower
As he dies he becomes a fully metallic
half man-half flying machine
By now the opponent is a metallic eagle-headed creature

The man-plane swoops towards the Metallic Eagle-Head
But the impact fails to chop off the Eagle-Head

Eagle Head and  Plane Man
now become indiscernible
The fight is entirely between a supple fish of steel
and none other than itself

Its long tail slashes through its own body
creating a dent that extends
almost to the head,
and the fish of steel chuckles and says:
It's a good thing these things are happening
after I came to be made of steel.
 
 

INDIGESTION

 In the Beginning
 There was the Big Divine Indigestion
And God couldn't take it
 So  there was the Big Bang

 Have a heavy Meal
 Preferably Spicy
 And Go to Bed
 Immediately after

 The Truth will be manifest