Bonsai of Thoughts: One Hundred Seven

1. The meaning of life—
enduring precisely
what cannot be endured.

2. In the spaces between these fingers,
where light sets its snares,
whatever light gathers there...
touch it gently as you pass.

3. You say see a doctor!?
Even before dying
you want me to waste money?!

4. In the layers of her words
I discover new traces
of my own existence...

5. Against the body of night's storm
daylight keeps
its perfect accounts.

6. The path to hell
is older even
than God.

7. If earth is like a mother,
then who is like the father?!

8. Whatever of me
was not made by your rules;
if you want a share of that,
come then by my rules.

9. Rain in someone's eyes;
someone's eyes in the rain.

10. In night's thick air
even day's light feathers
grow heavy...

11. When time turns stormy,
remain then
in wait for the storm itself.

12. In fading light
even the sea trembles
at fire's sparks.

13. When life is at low tide,
still...
at God's signal
a false high tide in our years.

14. The more orthodox,
the more lame.

15. Eye to eye
in this fog-wrapped
silence,
the living of breath.

16. Going to see the moon...
a fragment of cloud
took leave
from the borders of sight.

17. In every twilight...
light's weeping
brings back
memories of the past.

18. The greater one's sorrow,
the more insistently
one tells
tales of various joys.

19. Is it then only
for this moment...
that yours is all mine
which is not yours at all!?

20. In the mountain winds
the famished leaves'
brittle, desperate cry.