Light Enough

Sunrise, Sept 24, looking east.

Leaves, just turning autumnal, manifest their inner nature, each unique, mirroring the human body-soul where pure water poured into each glass takes its individual colors of the personal container. William Chittick summarizes Ibn al-‘Arabi: 

“When the servant comes to know himself, thereby knowing God, he does not know God in Himself. Rather, he knows Him as his own Lord. This is the God who discloses Himself to the soul, and the self-disclosure is different from that experienced by any other soul. The God that I come to know through knowing myself is the God of my own belief, the water which has assumed the color of my cup.” Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination, p. 344.

Imaginal World

Presence spreads time and space

breaking past habit-daze, 

pointillizing same-old illusion.

Instead of sleep walk where the foot

sets down insecure half over the stair step,

anticipate the fall, wake up before.

See into the mist the shade shift;

hear the bear huff over the leaf crunch.

Trust the vision of dream worlds

more than desire and rank, rank.

Listen to the word and smell it.

In the smoke of furious wordstreams

sense the burned edge of intimacy,

the ashy loss, and love silence long.

Enough.

Sunrise, Sept 24, looking west.