Breathing Starlight

From Robert Dhiraj’s poetry collection, The Cymbal Clash of Sky

breathing starlight,

eating nettle,

the ancient masters surpass wonder

as their bodies crumble to dust,

they look everyone in the eye,

knowing the light in their heart

can never be darkened

and we watch our faces fall to bone,

our heads fill with prolix matter,

the ancient masters show us the way,

beacons

on a windswept mountain

From the poetry book:

The Cymbal Clash of Sky

Poems from Tibet

by Robert Dhiraj

No Shadow Publishers, 2019

ISBN: 0648728900,

ISBN: 9780648728900

Featured image for the poem by Kristaps Ungurs via Unsplash