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The Flood of Light, California SR 136, Keeler, California, Unied States of America

The Welcome Flood of Emptiness

Occluded
Clouded
My mind a storm of thoughts

Breathe
Stillness

Empty myself
Of past, present and future
Of fear, desire, need

In the quiet
A softening
Becomes a glimmer
Becomes the light itself

Flooding the plain
Of my existence

Which at first
Seems wasteland

Breathe again
And the waste becomes barrenness

Breathe again
And the barrenness becomes emptiness

Detached
From time and material things
I learn the beauty of emptiness

Which I fill
With this moment

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The Path Through Darkness, Middle Head Trail, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada

The Path Through Darkness

Stillness in dark, dense forest
Light trickles through the canopy
Enough to cast shadows of utter black
In near blackness

Trees and roots form vague outlines
A maze of a path
Upon a maze for footfalls

I stumble my way
In a direction which seems
Forward

Progress slow
Or futile
I do not know

No matter
If futile
Step back
Seek another path

In this sense
All paths lead to the light
Failure is to remain complacent
In the darkness