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meditation on death

 

“Let the dead bury the dead.”

-Jesus of Nazareth

 

the white wolfe lives with death

part of his briilliant terrifiying allure

is that he is death’s faithful servant

the jaws of white wolfe are death

 

i have asked white wolfe about death

he snarled contemptuously at me

birth into death, death into birth

this is the mystery of love arising

 

again i sadly asked him about death

he whisked his tail and turned away

walking deeper into the shady forest

found a bone and tossed into the air

 

persistent, i asked him, why death

he sat glaring with fierce golden eyes

in stillness he sat until i was forced

to join him and sit in deepest silence

 

suddenly yet gradually, without portent

tears arose, sweet, sad, sorrowful tears

flowing from his heart to burn my cheeks

I awoke to a wild dog kissing me wetly

 

yet again, i asked him, why must i die

he whimpered gently compassionately

life arises to death, death arises to life

to live is to love, to love is to kiss death

 

finally, i understood the white wolfe

the beloved dies daily that all might live

not as before, but each time more richly

i tossed a white bone into the dark forest

 

the white wolfe embraces birth and death

part of his mystery and facinating allure

is that he is the beloved’s faithful lover

the jaws of white wolfe are love’s kiss

 

oh, my reader listen to the white wolfe

 

if we resist the love of the white wolfe

he will take us in violence and temerity

if we embrace love as does the white wolfe

we run in endless fields of trackless snow

 

be aa white wolfe, let the dead bury the dead

 

mark christopher valentine

march 14, 2001

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