Among the Nameless Stars

11/30/07

And when I am no more remember me

Who loved you for the singing soul in you,

The days when Heaven seemed descended here,

A timeless moment in eternal time.

The body weakened faces soon its end

Though the happiness we knew seems now a dream,

Another life lived once within this frame

A doppelgŠnger spirit unaware,

Blind to fate and human destiny.

Perhaps the gods more rightly understand

That from the dark we enter into light

And then into the dark recede once more

To rest perhaps, to gather up the threads

Of joys and sorrows like the yin and yang,

A chiaroscuro of delight and grief

Knowing that our failures spurred us on

And then depart grateful in defeat.

So I must leave you beautiful and young

With spaceless inner regions to explore,

Opening of doors that close on me,

A greater music to be issued forth

From the incandescent fervour of your soul.

But in the aftermath of life's brief hours

I shall love you still and still among the flowers

Springing from the earth that nourished me

And now is quickened by this flesh and bone,

Remember you as India, my love,

And high above the grave in some new dawn

I'll sing your name among the nameless stars.