Light Receding

As light recedes,

mind’s eye discovers new visions.

Fear, once dark,

finds its disappearance puzzling.

One’s inner-self drifts toward unspoken words,

where suddenly a being is one with

the heron and the hen,

mountain beasts and ocean fish,

serpent ghosts and nightmares past.

As light recedes,

one’s madness finds nobility with discord,

adjustments in argument as mere contrasting query

and shadows becoming walls to assist closure.

As light recedes,

remembrances of stormy discourse

vanish into night clouds protecting their moon

while awaiting tomorrow’s permanent relief.

Light recedes further

when the passing of the self suffers

its final tearless night

and dawn brings all-natural shapes of the cosmos

into blazing unfamiliar light,

releasing ashes to be one with the oneness,

free in the weeping winds,

drifting to the next iteration of continuance.

Nirvana reaching.