Clarity

Clarity

Things come clear when the clutter of day's urgency ebbs.

When you surrender the light, waiving unquenched thirsts,
The elemental core shows up like a tree in full moon light:
Stark, clarified, yet retaining the mystery of the night.

The future, like sap-water wicked through the tree, vaporizes;
Eternity shines ever more empty in the silvered light;
Life shows its branches are mere alternative courses;

The trunk as time stands firm, upholding the constant flow;
While the roots, dowsing through granite, maintain a stake
On the waters of your past, and claw the surface of current reality.

(distractions fade)
(darkness reveals)
(fullness of nothing)
(all streams seaward)
(place is motion)
(accretion is loss)