In celebration of sadness
I cry with a smile inside
For the wrecking, the wracking purge of it,
For the chasm open wide.
I consecrate the dark place.
It shows me what i hide.
I pay the penance like an offering
At the altar of all joy.
I spill the blood
I should have spent
When i was young,
The burning wet,
The shredding past
Erases fractured dreams,
And burns the fragile prop of hope,
The fire of censer smoke
The holy spirit spoke,
The anguish woke.
And in collapse
It leaves a wake –
A sacred hole
Where once a solid mountain stood.
a vacuum
Gushing unstopped divine
Washing all palpable of time
Obliterate me in thine.
I worship shame
And grief my lord
My guru not my enemy.
In my embrace
We both lose face
And fall down to the floor.
Sadness, i exalt you
You lonely child of God
When i see you truly
Nothing can cause me harm.
