August 9, 2009

Diamond Lotus

You
are the
lotus
my
broken diamond

*

your prism
vitality
shines
from you

*

though
no sunlight
finds you
here
in
the depths
of
this forgotten mire

*

How crystal transparent
that heart
of you
fragile diamond

*

a flowering beauty
in this
swamped slough
of misery

*

You shine alone
in this
unjeweled night

*

and you
shame
the stars

*

who have forgotten
the haunted
places