Beginning

'In the beginning, when Elohim was creating the heavens and the earth,
the earth was a formless void, and darkness was over the face of the Deep
('Te'hom), and the Breath of God ('Ruach') was stirring over the waters.'
~Genesis 1

Breath is a river
returning to the Deep
where every creature is conceived
as a wave of silence.
If you drown in this water
there is no more thirst,
no more searching for a spring.
What pours always pours
from fullness into emptiness.
Now clash and break
like a song-stone in the foam
on the edges of a blessed
turbulence,
then grow still with wonder.
The appearance is mirror-like,
yet beneath the glass
is an imageless ebb and flow,
the undertow of love,
pulling your heart ever
downward into that
burgundy sea of aloneness
all lips yearn for
speechlessly.
Come, night.