1
In an instant’s
image
it seemd
he suddenly outgrew the vision
proper to mortal sight
and could see
with eyes a-flower
the blazing source
of all our beginnings :
expanding
contracting
centers of power,
bees a-swarm
a spinning
whirl of worlds
where a stream of stars
overwhelmingly brilliant
centerd on a sun (now
nowhere to be seen ).
2
In that instant when he
saw the blazing stars ,
(the supreme moment of
his experience
in eternity ),
he glimpsed
strange vistas of
his own innermost being :
in that instant
all
times were present ,
as though the
depths of the
past and the
future also ,
coexistent ,
the full achievement of all
the whole protracted sequence
of creations & destructions
bodied forth
one
after the other
in sequence , each arriving
& departing at its own peculiar
place & time
coexisted somehow
inside him .
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