From " In the Garden of Illness.."
I wanted to give this poem to everybody as a gift that is on this journey with me.
I prayed to the Heavens
for a great teacher
dignifying, enlightening and steady.
With desperate pleas,
in silent conveyance,
that I, the student, was ready.
And so the Heavens,
obliged to my need,
send a great teacher
to answer.
When I asked him his name,
he smiled at me warmly,
bowed down to me
and said:
Sixty-seven days after departing Flores Island in Europe’s westernmost waters, the schooner Heimdall and her stalwart crew has finally arrived at the mysterious Isla Socorro in the Revillagigedo Archipelagoes. The discoveries they make are astounding
This poem is exactly what its title states: "ENLIGHTENMENT".
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
Elizabeth