To Seek Bright Light I Close My Eyes Tight
(for Dylan Thomas) Looking around, I only see darkness in sight All is thick shadow beyond thick shadow To seek bright light I close my eyes tight In each dream I have dreamed at midnight I follow my heart, and closely my heart I follow The darkest nightmare contains rays of light Striving, I strive forward with all my might Against the high flow, the flow that I well know Looking around, I only see darkness in sight Right at this site where the time is right I let go my dream drifting away like a morning glow Looking around, I only see darkness in sight Inside, more inside is a door shining bright I fumble my way slow as if a rough raft to row To seek bright light I close my eyes tight Men and women, come down from heated height Don’t you hear the song from soul to soul echo Looking around, I only see darkness in sight To seek bright light I close my eyes tight For Gaxyland, the World of Universal Harmony Come, come You peng from the Zhuangzian northern darkness You swan from the Horacean meadows You pheasant from under Li Bo’s cold moon You oriole from Dufu’s green willow You dove from the Dantean inferno You phoenix from Shakespeare’s urn You swallow from the Goethe oak or The Nerudan dense blue air, you cuckoo From the Wordsworthian vale, you albatross From the Coleridgean fog, you nightingale From the Keatsian plum tree, you skylark Form the Shalleyean heaven, you owl From under the Baudelairen overhanging years You unnamed creature from the Pushkinian alien lands You raven from near Poe’s chamber door You parrot from the Tagorean topmost twig And you crows from among my cawing words Come, all of you, more than 100 kinds of Birds from every time spot or spot moment Come, with your light but strong skeletons Come, with your hard but toothless beaks Come, with your colored feathers, and flap your wings Against Su dongpo’s painting brush strokes Come, all you free spirits of nature Let’s join one another and flock together High, higher up towards Gaxyland Gaxyland While all my fellow humans are still busy Trying to find the way to heaven, I am alone Living in paradise already: An earthly realm I have built myself With the light from Lapland, where the setting sun Shines with the morning glows above golden snow The air from Shangri-la, where the yin And yang are in pure and perfect balance with Each other in every grass, every cloud The water from Waterton Lakes, which Reflect the mountain of trees as clearly As the mountain reflects upon the clear water That’s all my spirit needs, not the fragments Of the meaning about Eden long lost But the whole backyard within my solitary heart Searching From east to west Among worst & best In the world real &/or virtual I have been trying Trying hard to Find a fellow human As high-minded as high-mannered But alas, there is no more true gentleren Living in this world As I so strongly wish to see As we all should live to be Always More Than Sought after I longed for a single dew, but You Have given me a whole morning I longed for a little cloud, but You Have given me a boundless sky I longed for a petal, but You Have given me an entire season I longed for a small tree, but You Have given me a range of mountains So I have stopped longing for anything Just to feel the gratitude to You and all Quest in Question Every soul is in search of something. So What are you pursuing in particular? A good job, a dream house, a short cut To success, a gold mine, a recipe, a map A magic gadget, a super talent, a passport A secret, a key, a harbor, a connection, a savior A nest for your heart, a soulmate, an ideal or The truth, the elixir, the cure, the Way The Dao, the meaning of life (if any at all) The peace of mind, the human rights or Freedom, equality, dignity, longevity Health, wealth, fame, friendship, love Sex, power, honor, knowledge, wisdom Good, beauty, Heaven, God or happiness...? While this list may go on forever amongst all Such desirable things, tangible or otherwise I have nothing to look for, except another breath Of air to inhale, at the next antlike moment, all The love from this universe, to exhale All my gratitude out of my inner being
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