Sign

What is the sign of a true Teacher?
When you try to forget him,
you can't.

When you to try to renounce him,
accuse him, scorn or abandon him,
he does not abandon you.

When you crucify him, he keeps
returning as a gentle breath
and pierces your chest like a ray
of atomized rubies.

If you need to let him go awhile,
he doesn't mind, he just dissolves
into the transparency
where this world-mirage arises.

And in the darkest night,
the more you pour your mind
into his cup of silence,

the sweeter the taste of the void,
and the fatter the fruit of his sunrise
in the morning of your heart.