My poem: In Search of the Goddess

My mystical poem


Ooh Goddess, my longing for you

Is like a wide ocean without a seashore

Waving and rippling continually in search of you

But never reaching any seashore to rest idle 

I fire upward a magical arrow

On its point I embed a love letter for you

It flies away to the empty space in search of you

Never falls back to the Earth below

I am swimming in the water of the empty space above

Dipping deeply into the water of the cosmic voids

From Earth through the edges of the universe

Only to look for you, you, you, ooh my Goddess

Ooh Goddess, if you dwell in heaven

I can reach you immediately 

But you dwell instead higher than heaven

Making me unable to arrive at you closely

Ooh Goddess, if you dwell in hell

I can reach you very swiftly

But you inhabit the region much deeper than hell

Making me unable to meet and kiss you tenderly

Ooh Goddess, if your abode is in the Sun

I surely have visited you there to dance together

But you dwell in the place of no return:

The densest Black Hole in the entire universe ever

Ooh Goddess, it is due to my deep longing for you only

I will bravely enter the Black Hole in haste

Far more powerful is the attraction power of your beauty

Than the sucking power of such a Black Hole

Ooh Goddess, when I am asking you any questions 
Don’t give me any answers to satisfy me
Give me instead more questions about Thee 
You are really more the questions than the answers 

Ooh Goddess, you are like a great conundrum

But nobody can solve it forever

Making me always think deeply about you ad infinitum

No rest and sleep can make me better

When I am praying to you at any silent night

Don’t answer any of my prayers forever and ever

Ooh Goddess, you need only to continue to sleep soundly  

So that I can sleep together with you for eternity

There is nothing better than sleeping with you forever

Sleep now with me, sleep now with me, ooh my dear

Morning will not be broken forever  

Day will not come either

Sleep, sleep, sleep in togetherness

In utter darkness . . .

In utter loneliness . . .

In utter togetherness . . .

Jakarta, 11 June 2015

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