THE MYSTIC AND THE RAJAH

[jim turner]

Lotused alone in a high and frozen cave,
starved and shivering in filthy rags,
he gazed at the vastness of the sky
and down upon a shrunken world
and happily believed: That is I and I am that;
surely a unity in the universe exists,
and thus the universe and I are one.

His universe encompassed one Rajah,
(who owned the mountain where the old man sat)
reclining upon cushions before a fire
of fragrant wood and drowsy warmth
beside–mounded in a golden bowl–cherries,
pitted by the pearls that were her teeth,
then one by luscious one
pressed between his reddened lips
by the slender fingers of a naked concubine.

He oiled then forked his sated tongue
to say, to scribes: I perceive no harm or threat
in his paradisiac misery, therefore,
I command that he teach all (who are not I)
to love and cherish all their squalor
and thereby magnify my magnificence.

As to his theory, I cannot concur.

Jim 10/03

[mnaz]

if they could be combined somehow... the endless duality-dichotomies.. thanks jim.