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Smoking Mirror

 

Mayan God profound - our Lord

wrapped in a symbol

alluring and incomprehensible

to fair complexioned people 

 

Do you reflect? 

Is fumy veil impenetrable 

to eyes stung by too earnest eyeful gazing? 

 

And then I wafted in the sacred vapor 

and inhaled deep - and blew out 

my substance

clinging to waves of smoldering bellows 

of dancing

mingling air uncolored

and then saw through and from, and was myself 

inhaled

 

Oh, Mayan God profound:

breath is a mirror and mirror breath of life

 

Oh Mayan God profound:

breathe my light

and blow me out

as a perfect reflection of you

riding on the smoke

smoking, smoking

 

Kindle me with your light 

and draw me in and take my light 

which was your light 

but this time keep me in you 

and let my airy remains float away

but my light penetrate you 

like a lover, 

and be raised up higher than light

 

For light is instantaneous –

as when I gaze at my instant self 

in hard glass  -

but you are above same time

you are no time at all 

no glass at all 

no hard reflector of slow exact light 

you are mirror of divine sightless smoke:

Smoking Mirror.

by John Gordon

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