[Emptiness][6th February 1971]

[Redbook1:196A][19710206][Emptiness][6th February 1971]

(D.III.7.2.71)

6.2.71

Emptiness

                                                My gentle friends.

                                    I know what you have suffered at my side;

                                    But now I bear a grief which will abide

                                    When all is cold.

                                                I cannot see all ends;

                                    And yet I say to you, though not yet old,

                                                We are all dead.

                                    I sat there, dying also: night and day,

                                    I felt belovèd awareness drift away;

                                    Hand held mine tight,

                                                Cold fingers shook with dread

                                    Of bleak and utter emptiness of Night –

                                                A soundless cry:

                                    Then all my love flowed through our hands caress --

                                    Awareness fled.  Now only emptiness

                                    Remains in mind.

                                                Grieve not for those who die;

                                    Grieve rather now for those they leave behind.

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