“if you’re looking for infinity, just close your eyes”
——— the unbearable lightness of being, kundera
light dances at the edge of day,
flickering hope in the golden ray,
but darkness whispers, soft and deep,
in shadows where secrets sleep.
light is bold, it dares to shine,
revealing truths, clear and fine,
yet darkness holds a quiet grace,
a place for dreams we dare not face.
close your eyes, and you will see,
infinite worlds in the blackened sea,
time dissolves, no end in sight,
darkness dissolves the heart of light.
where light meets dark, we are whole,
both halves, the balance of the soul.
“Darkness attracted him as much as light. He knew that these days turning out the light before making love was considered laughable, and so he always left a small lamp burning over the bed. At the moment he penetrated Sabina, however, he closed his eyes. The pleasure suffusing his body called for darkness. That darkness was pure, perfect, thoughtless, visionless; that darkness was without end, without borders; that darkness was the infinite we each carry within us. (Yes, if you’re looking for infinity, just close your eyes!)
And at that moment he felt pleasure suffusing his body, Franz himself disintegrated and dissolved into the infinity of his darkness, himself become infinite. But the larger a man grows in his own inner darkness, the more his outer form diminishes. A man with closed eyes is a wreck of a man. Then, Sabina found the sight of Franz distasteful, and to avoid looking at him she too closed her eyes. But for her, darkness did not mean infinity; for her it meant a disagreement with what she saw, the negation of what was seen, the refusal to see.”
(kundera, 1984)
photo credit: Luke Braswell
reference
kundera, milan. the unbearable lightness of being. harper & row, 1984.
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