Monarca Rising

“Pain—has an Element of Blank—
It cannot recollect
When it begun—or if there were
A time when it was not—

It has no Future—but itself—
Its Infinite Contain
Its Past—enlightened to perceive
New Periods—of Pain.”-Emily Dickinson

An Element of Blank

by Carmen H Gray

I am enlightened to perceive

An Element of Blank

Meaning, I have been split open

My atomic number is zero

There is no simpler existence

Than to be enlightened to perceive

An Element of Blank

I live on that plane

Smack dab in the middle of

Between the periods of

Pain

Where I am enlightened to perceive

The next layer, the next level

Of intangible, undeniable ranges of

Pain

And that is the great secret

That creates a sense of cessation of

Pain