confide

confiding in someone who

is not apt to receive the confidence

is necessarily experienced

as a rejection

not that rejection there necessarily is

only lack of understanding

or incapacity to embrace

what cannot be

understood

ripe

soft wind in drying leaves

announcing autumn to come

while the fruit of perseverance

is ripe

and all endeavours

meeting their purpose

in vain

a veil of tenderness

embracing the world

after a thunderstorm

and a night of rain

a veil a tenderness

embracing the mind

after the liberation of

ancient pain

a veil of tenderness

embracing the heart

after the disappearance of a body

caught in fear

nothing is in vain

inhabit

inhabiting one’s body

after having lived beside it

most of the life

is a subtle exploration of

the unknown

minimal

gaining

even only a minimal space

of inner freedom

is groundbreaking

though once the ground is broken

freedom can but expand

incessantly

into the core of every cell

finally liberating

the body itself

sustaining

the smell of rain

soft falling late summer rain

no reality is heavy to bear

when being transparent

though being transparent

is more than what

most of us are able to

sustain

dryness

soft winds playing

with dry leaves

as the drought drags on

and life is holding on to

what is