Finding And Losing Poem by Denis Mair

(for a painting by Abdelhaq Djellab while it was still unfinished... It turned out to have a red circle of love in the center, * proving that my orbits through blackness were lost in space)
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In a vortex of blackness,

where ends chase beginnings

an engine of forgetfulness

propels the boat of remembrance.

Consciousness inscribes a golden text of time.

A black infinity running ahead of the text

collapses into the golden moment of each word.

From eternity's dark sea, prayer crawls ashore

on the golden island of the present moment.

Loss of the looking self

gains a vantage point of wonderment

for abundance that waits to be found.
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