poetry by other people....
Posted: August 8th, 2005, 11:25 am
Night in Kalapa
This time it happened –
I was caught in a thunderstorm
I spun and twirled
I was dizzy, I was happy
I was caught off guard.
This whirlwind caught my heart
At just the right moment.
I needed this, I wanted this.
I needed everything to fall apart
Like feathers from a pillow
Tossed high into the sky.
Everything came falling down,
Gliding on a breeze caught in its own time –
Energy that could not be measured.
Comet shoots across my existence.
This wonderful force does not know where it will go.
I need things to fall apart
I want things to fall apart.
All through time, all through the day
I have held on and held on tight.
Now everything has fallen apart.
The sun and the moon know how to fall apart.
Spring knows how to be summer
Autumn leaves know how to fall down.
Can I be like the seasons
And know that falling apart
Is the movement of time,
The movement of life?
I have not given up,
I have simply woken up.
This burst of energy
That I cannot contain in my being
Wants to hug something
It wants to twirl and spin
It wants mayhem.
I am mayhem.
I am claustrophobia self-liberated,
Hesitation with a friend called fathomlessness.
I am that smile
That shines across the sky.
If you look up, you will see me
And fall apart.
-- by Sakyong Mipham
This time it happened –
I was caught in a thunderstorm
I spun and twirled
I was dizzy, I was happy
I was caught off guard.
This whirlwind caught my heart
At just the right moment.
I needed this, I wanted this.
I needed everything to fall apart
Like feathers from a pillow
Tossed high into the sky.
Everything came falling down,
Gliding on a breeze caught in its own time –
Energy that could not be measured.
Comet shoots across my existence.
This wonderful force does not know where it will go.
I need things to fall apart
I want things to fall apart.
All through time, all through the day
I have held on and held on tight.
Now everything has fallen apart.
The sun and the moon know how to fall apart.
Spring knows how to be summer
Autumn leaves know how to fall down.
Can I be like the seasons
And know that falling apart
Is the movement of time,
The movement of life?
I have not given up,
I have simply woken up.
This burst of energy
That I cannot contain in my being
Wants to hug something
It wants to twirl and spin
It wants mayhem.
I am mayhem.
I am claustrophobia self-liberated,
Hesitation with a friend called fathomlessness.
I am that smile
That shines across the sky.
If you look up, you will see me
And fall apart.
-- by Sakyong Mipham