Raja's Verses

What is Heaven like?  Heaven is like, after a growing struggle against the confines of space-time,  After the dark kicking and wrestling with the membrane of everything finite,  Like bursting, after a threshold of pain, out Into the free light  The more the soul stretches, develops in sensitivity  The less it all fits All held in by inabilities  inhibitions incomprehensions  The imperfection of three dimensions... Until the heart  Flows over into a song  That longs to be born again  Heaven is not Seeing, in slivers but everything all at once  the inside and outside And the hairs in the back of our heads and the front  It is like  Tracing the lines, slowly  Of your old home  And everything all of sudden is known  Faced, felt, held, in a word  Contemplated  It is like tasting, but more than tasting  It fills  All the way up, and more than enough It spills  Over and outward, and...

Zygote The angels stand speechless at each little soul From two loves, one flesh — Ineffable. When the worlds collide  And a small seed hides inside a woman’s fair flower garden — Beautiful  Swift yet silent is a new bud hastening  To new forms, rising from a new strength, wakening... But still, small — all within the limits of a pinpoint! Atoms, splitting quickly into slender fingers, thin joints... There! where the makings of a man first flourishes  There at the start where the warm dark nourishes  The molding, unfolding of a whole new universe The first of its kind  which the stars of the sky cannot contain A refrain rises up from the awe-struck seraphim  Long before the 6 week heartbeat bursts through In liquid soundwaves Heaven take care of him! Glory to the Maker of the Living In the living thing made! Soundless are the world’s most dazzling miracles  Secret as the seed’s unraveling... lyrical, Only to the hearts which hearken  To the ...