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Song For Nobody


A yellow flower
(Light and spirit)
Sings by itself
For nobody.

A golden spirit
(Light and emptiness)
Sings without a word
By itself.

Let no one touch this gentle sun
In whose dark eye
Someone is awake.

(No light, no gold, no name, no color
And no thought:
O, wide awake!)

A golden heaven
Sings by itself
A song to nobody.



-Thomas Merton

Date: 2003-07-29 10:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] splagxna.livejournal.com
i love thomas merton. yayy trappist monk.

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