a wakeful night

day lost to dreaming; the evening breezes whisper – now a wakeful night

December 20, 2008 by Mary

to an old lover

you lap about my feet

like waves

surrounding

covering

nibbling the sand beneath me

until

grain by tiny grain

am undermined

Dhamapada Verse

Long is the night for the wakeful; Long is the journey for the weary; Long is samsara for the foolish who know not the Sublime Truth

louder than

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