YIN
 
 

I cast my magic spell - I am darkness upon you - my stormy eyes - ebony dragons
That devour your will: Clouds come, more clouds - storm raging atop my mountain
I watch you at my vantage point from within you through a storm that never relents

I see you below - looking above into clandestine nightfall - Now I disappear
Fizzling moon effervescing behind lacy night clouds
I am your private typhoon - mercilessly I roar in the corridors of your soul
My murky, frothy waters batter your spirit
I move the mountains to spew their wicked venom forth on the condoning land
  Causing congeries of debris that settle in your heart
Through your mind's open door - the herons are released to the sky
Desperately ascending to heaven's haven
You - A western man attempt to manufacture the eastern way to your own use
  But the wall between the eastern and western mind can never be brought down
So forever you are terrestrial - seeking to be celestial
I walk in feline footsteps that pierce the edges of your sunlit psyche
Muse of darkness - Muse thirteen, whose ravenous song devours your yang
  Light bending - light yielding - moved to subterranean depths within yourself A flailing bird with broken spirit - Wings now folding away
  Funny ancient rhythms - Incantations, undulating Western mind - Closing eyes
  Eastern sun - Now rising.
 
 
 
 
 
Copyright 1997 by Lyssa Aja
 
 
 
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