Ashkaari Koslun by madnessdemon on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Ashkaari Koslun for russian contest.

Tonight, in the desert, with emptiness all around, The sky, endless, the earth, desolate, Before my eyes the contradiction opened like a night-blooming flower.

Emptiness is an illusion. Beneath my feet, Grains of sand beyond counting. Above my head, a sea of stars. Alone, they are small, A faint and flickering light in the darkness, A lost and fallen fragment of earth.

Alone, they make the emptiness real. Together, they are the bones of the world. Solitude is illusion. Alone in the darkness, I was surrounded on all sides. The starlight dripped from the petals Of cactus flowers, A chorus of insects sang across the dunes.

How much abundance the world carries If every fistful of sand Is an eternity of mountains.

The Body Canto, Qun