A painting by Danny Castillones Sillada
NOTHINGNESS: A
CIRCLE’S CIPHER
(For Danny
Castillones Sillada)
Nothingness,
therefore, is the terminus a quo
and the terminus ad quem of
human freedom because nothing before or after follows the human inactivity and
indifference, but the will to feel, the will to reason, the will to ponder, and
the will to live. …Man is nothing until he unfolds and lives his nothingness
with value and meaning.---Danny Castillones Sillada
Dread is all there is to look for: all fears
found all found fearful. An undiscovered country
touched for moments of eternity not there
pour between fingers, time watching time
colour blind’s grey Journeyman’s carousel
among the stars. Still an undiscovered country.
Between the egg and the sky or whatever space
is allowed between them, heaves the Tension.
Surely, between whatever binds everything to nothing
and the trace of distinction between life and dying
is nothing’s extension. Still the end of this space
is his beginning to know where ends he whose touchand the trace of distinction between life and dying
is nothing’s extension. Still the end of this space
is the question: Am I everything or nothing? I am?
Let me shape myself then. This time, in my own image.
---Albert B. Casuga
Revised, 04-27-2014
Thank you so much for the dedication Sir Albert, I’m so honored, a great birthday poem present on my birthday. I love these lines: “Am I everything or nothing? I am? / Let me shape myself then. This time, in my own image.” It sums up everything. :)
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