Glance

The Not-So-Easy-to-See Frescoes at the Citadel of Sigiriya, Sri Lanka.
500 painting of women wiped out when the citadel became a monastery (again)
so that they would not disturb meditation.



I was
suffused with the inside out
but what your fleeting glance could discern
if not the embodied absence

Every time the pain of being surfaced
I quickly averted the glance
why should it be so
if not to look for the pleasures of ephemeral

I am who I am
able to withhold
unable to contain

So what you discern is the key
to let me recognize you

I must tell you
each glance that dwells fleetingly
leaves an imprint
everlasting.

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