QuanYin
oh gracefully thoughtful
everything guardian
angel-moon!
i am bathed in the light
pouring from your
celestial pitcher
of endlessness
softening my
barnacled hull
until it melts again
into living flesh
elastic
an iridescent
permeable membrane
your light becomes a stream
and i am swimming
in the universe
slippery, slidey
wet and shiny
drinking it all in
through my new skin
i drift to a lull in
the current
where stillness breathes
blossoming me
into a gentle lotus song
i recognise
it's you, oh maiden glowing!
did you pour your own
radiant self down
into delicate
petaled softness
just to open me?
© 1993 Liesl Lee