Deluge
by Elizabeth ReningerOriginal Language English
on its loom of gold, its latticework
of lightning, rain pours
from Heaven into your seeing
weeks, months, lifetimes since
last the sky released
such a fury of Truth
if you were the Buddha you could hear
in thunder a universe
of flowers blooming
might even don this wet
surrender as a robe -- gusts
of wind turning
Love to velvet . . . might walk right into
that holy fire -- lakes
of wisdom forming in
the craters left
by your
enormous
steps. . .
-- from And Now the Story Lives Inside You, by Elizabeth Reninger |
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