Through a telescope looking onto the past, A child laughs, Bathing with his brethren in the open sun. Through that same telescope pointed to the near future, The child withers, Swaddled with his mother at home. In the far future, The child and friends stand crouched and waiting, Wondering with the rest of us: Will… Continue reading A timeless question
Category: poetry
Love meets purpose
You searched and pined for the one to love, The perfect one, The one who would return that love, Would make you whole. In each situation, Your founding expectation rendered this person something other than they were, An illusory object that you could cradle, Possess, Lust for, But that was never really yours. In the… Continue reading Love meets purpose
The silence and its meaning
Deep within you is a quiet space From which you were born, and which you will return to upon your death. Even when you forget it while in life, it is there; It is the space in which the experience of your forgetting is contained. You can feel this if you meditate: That deep-down hum,… Continue reading The silence and its meaning
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 