« The Dirty Dozen of Primordial Purity »

0.
The story of a zero
Is a non-story.
1.
The story of self
Is one.
2.
The story of duality
Is not-two.
3.
The story of trinity
Is that of the first circle.
4.
Consciousness, light, spirit, emptiness
Are four words that mean the same thing-less-ness.
5.
To say that five precedes six
Is the same as to say that one follows zero.
But what a difference!
6.
There is
no ultimate self-help book
Because,
Ultimately,
There is no self.
7.
A pattern
breaks
itself.
What betrayal?
8.
Future is voodoo.
9.
Time is a Shaman.
10.
Ten truths tried to dispel It.
Only One survived.
Un-contextualized,
Essence blossoms
Among the weeds of meaning.
11.
Launching poems with numbers
Is like trying to quantify a quality.
Eleven times, in vain, and, yet, still trying.
12.
Primordial purity
is a dirty dozen.
Just my luck!

pavel somov, still is
copyright 2009