aloof

alone

a stone

is a calcified tear

of the universe.

terrain

smoked

in vain

over-ly-terrif-ied-Yin

mysterious Tehran

[foreign world within].

ask not for a woman

but for an angel

made of light-ness

which a woman transcends

not into. [for she s-carries

so much – so many – stones]

we shall not meet

but hopelessly seek

not one. An Other.

otherness!

is it your voice

in this unfathomable

inescapable grey room?

[how could the self be the

one

to kill loneliness?]

plenitude

a meeting with God?

or the endless River

s-tumbling, falling starfishes

flowing inspite of

what is petrified.

wavelength suffering

which once was the same:

river-seeks-ocean-through-gravity

salt and earth water weights

as poet meets death.