Just Be There Where You Are

BE there where you have always been

Fate is firm in its resolve, the will unbending.

Nor far, nor near, always within sight, but beyond reach

                                                                        altogether; 

Without activity yet keeping interest.

The flame is out, still neither hot nor cold.

A luminous darkness, doors closed yet the breeze moving

free:

A river with no currents yet a silent tide moving up ...

Field harvested, stacks of straw strewn over - the only

                                                                               comfort;

Out of the watery tomb of the goddess floats up her

                                                               cardboard coronet.

Nothing is here yet something remains. An empty envelope

With only the address written in the dear familiar hand.—

                                                      A trifle, still invaluable!

After the wild passion's play the fatigued floor lies with the

covering carpet of memory­—

Not a magic carpet— it will take you nowhere!

You shall remain just there, where you have been forever.

HENA HALDER