<p class="ql-block">ELIXIR OF THE INVISIBLE EARTH</p><p class="ql-block">We tear off pieces of the earth</p><p class="ql-block">we crush them beneath rough feet</p><p class="ql-block">as if we do not know</p><p class="ql-block">that we are stepping on our own beginnings</p><p class="ql-block">Forgive me for writing again</p><p class="ql-block">I sell dreams</p><p class="ql-block">to myself</p><p class="ql-block">and to you</p><p class="ql-block">In my mind I cook a dense transparent substance</p><p class="ql-block">a gelatin of memory and premonition</p><p class="ql-block">to carry to you</p><p class="ql-block">the bitterness of time</p><p class="ql-block">Are we ready</p><p class="ql-block">to look at life without a veil</p><p class="ql-block">are we ready</p><p class="ql-block">to offer it a hand</p><p class="ql-block">not as masters</p><p class="ql-block">but as passersby</p><p class="ql-block">We are particles</p><p class="ql-block">flickers within infinity</p><p class="ql-block">floating energy</p><p class="ql-block">that for a moment knows it breathes</p><p class="ql-block">Life does not ask for mystery</p><p class="ql-block">it does not ask for answers</p><p class="ql-block">it asks for bread in the hand</p><p class="ql-block">for water that remembers its source</p><p class="ql-block">and for a touch that does not give up</p><p class="ql-block">It asks us</p><p class="ql-block">to stitch the wounds</p><p class="ql-block">we have opened ourselves</p><p class="ql-block">On the stage of the world</p><p class="ql-block">the drums of time resound</p><p class="ql-block">light breaks returns disappears</p><p class="ql-block">a cycle that does not ask us</p><p class="ql-block">And at the edge of that cycle</p><p class="ql-block">stands Veles</p><p class="ql-block">in the roots of the world and the silence of the soil</p><p class="ql-block">listening to how we break our own earth</p><p class="ql-block">Above him Perun</p><p class="ql-block">in light and thunder</p><p class="ql-block">slashes the sky</p><p class="ql-block">seeking the balance we lose</p><p class="ql-block">And we</p><p class="ql-block">drained clouds</p><p class="ql-block">wander above ourselves</p><p class="ql-block">in a balance that threatens</p><p class="ql-block">Tomorrow</p><p class="ql-block">Let tomorrow be a silence</p><p class="ql-block">that does not hurt</p><p class="ql-block">Let thoughts calm</p><p class="ql-block">if only for a single breath</p><p class="ql-block">On the wall a painting</p><p class="ql-block">cherries bursting with life</p><p class="ql-block">red fragrant</p><p class="ql-block">almost real</p><p class="ql-block">That is it</p><p class="ql-block">that energy</p><p class="ql-block">the elixir</p><p class="ql-block">Reset</p><p class="ql-block">Perhaps then we will know how to choose</p><p class="ql-block">peace instead of noise</p><p class="ql-block">an embrace instead of distance</p><p class="ql-block">a morning at the table</p><p class="ql-block">where children breathe without fear</p><p class="ql-block">We will listen to flowers</p><p class="ql-block">speaking without words</p><p class="ql-block">We will join the torn earth</p><p class="ql-block">with hands soaked in tears</p><p class="ql-block">We will strengthen the light</p><p class="ql-block">where we once dimmed it</p><p class="ql-block">Because it is enough</p><p class="ql-block">to awaken</p><p class="ql-block">to stop</p><p class="ql-block">and to see</p><p class="ql-block">To offer our hands</p><p class="ql-block">to thank the invisible plan</p><p class="ql-block">that still holds us</p><p class="ql-block">And when one day</p><p class="ql-block">time stands still for all of us</p><p class="ql-block">when in a boundless flower garden</p><p class="ql-block">we dance lighter than ourselves</p><p class="ql-block">perhaps then</p><p class="ql-block">we will become human</p><p class="ql-block">You</p><p class="ql-block">and I</p><p class="ql-block">But before that</p><p class="ql-block">we must return life to life</p><p class="ql-block">for the child</p><p class="ql-block">for the human</p><p class="ql-block">for what is yet to come</p><p class="ql-block">Because after</p><p class="ql-block">only silence remains</p><p class="ql-block">if we have not known how to love</p><p class="ql-block">I awaken in the crown of light</p><p class="ql-block">and offer warmth</p><p class="ql-block">to the world</p> <p class="ql-block">隐世大地的灵药</p><p class="ql-block">我们撕扯大地的肌理</p><p class="ql-block">以粗粝的双足将其碾碎</p><p class="ql-block">仿佛从未知晓</p><p class="ql-block">脚下踏的，是自我的原初</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">原谅我再次落笔</p><p class="ql-block">我向自己</p><p class="ql-block">也向你</p><p class="ql-block">兜售着梦境</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">我在心底熬煮一剂浓稠的透明浆液</p><p class="ql-block">那是记忆与预感凝就的胶饴</p><p class="ql-block">为向你捧去</p><p class="ql-block">时光的涩意</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">我们是否已然准备好</p><p class="ql-block">卸去面纱，直面生命</p><p class="ql-block">是否已然准备好</p><p class="ql-block">向它伸出援手</p><p class="ql-block">非以主宰者的姿态</p><p class="ql-block">只作匆匆行客</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">我们本是微尘</p><p class="ql-block">是永恒之中的一瞬微光</p><p class="ql-block">是浮游的星芒</p><p class="ql-block">在须臾间感知着呼吸的存在</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">生命从不渴求玄妙的谜底</p><p class="ql-block">也不追问既定的答案</p><p class="ql-block">它只求掌心的一缕食粮</p><p class="ql-block">只求铭记源头的一汪清泉</p><p class="ql-block">只求一份不曾放弃的触碰</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">它只求我们</p><p class="ql-block">缝补所有伤痕</p><p class="ql-block">我们已然敞开心扉</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">在这世间的舞台之上</p><p class="ql-block">时光的鼓点轰然回响</p><p class="ql-block">光芒撕裂天际，归来又消散</p><p class="ql-block">这循环往复，从无需问我们的意愿</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">而在这轮回的边缘</p><p class="ql-block">维列斯静静伫立</p><p class="ql-block">于世界的根脉，于泥土的缄默里</p><p class="ql-block">聆听着我们如何将自身的大地摧折</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">他的上方，佩伦现身</p><p class="ql-block">于天光与惊雷之中</p><p class="ql-block">劈裂苍穹</p><p class="ql-block">追寻着我们遗失的平衡</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">而我们</p><p class="ql-block">如被抽干的流云</p><p class="ql-block">在自我的上空漂泊</p><p class="ql-block">置身于岌岌可危的平衡里</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">明天</p><p class="ql-block">愿明天是一场温柔的寂静</p><p class="ql-block">不再携着伤痛</p><p class="ql-block">愿思绪归于平和</p><p class="ql-block">哪怕只在一呼一吸之间</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">墙面的画作里</p><p class="ql-block">樱蕊灼灼，绽放着生机</p><p class="ql-block">嫣红馥郁</p><p class="ql-block">真切得触手可及</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">就是它</p><p class="ql-block">这股力量</p><p class="ql-block">这剂灵药</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">重启一切</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">或许彼时，我们终将懂得抉择</p><p class="ql-block">择安宁，弃喧嚣</p><p class="ql-block">择相拥，远疏离</p><p class="ql-block">择桌前的清晨</p><p class="ql-block">孩子们能无畏地呼吸</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">我们会聆听繁花</p><p class="ql-block">无声的絮语</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">我们会以泪湿的手掌</p><p class="ql-block">将破碎的大地拼接</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">我们会为曾黯淡的光</p><p class="ql-block">添一分炽热</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">只因觉醒便足矣</p><p class="ql-block">停下脚步便足矣</p><p class="ql-block">用心凝望便足矣</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">伸出我们的手</p><p class="ql-block">感恩那无形的安排</p><p class="ql-block">它仍将我们温柔托举</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">终有一日</p><p class="ql-block">当时光为我们所有人静止</p><p class="ql-block">当我们置身无垠的花海</p><p class="ql-block">舞得轻盈，轻过本真的自己</p><p class="ql-block">或许彼时</p><p class="ql-block">我们才真正成为人</p><p class="ql-block">你</p><p class="ql-block">与我</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">但在此之前</p><p class="ql-block">我们要让生命回归生命本身</p><p class="ql-block">为了孩子</p><p class="ql-block">为了世人</p><p class="ql-block">为了尚未到来的一切</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">因为倘若我们不懂如何去爱</p><p class="ql-block">此后的世间</p><p class="ql-block">便只剩一片寂静</p><p class="ql-block"> </p><p class="ql-block">我于光冕中苏醒</p><p class="ql-block">向这人间</p><p class="ql-block">奉上温热</p>